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Der neue Song der Rolling Stones stürmt die Charts, Bruce Springsteen hat ein Magengeschwür und In London läuft aktuell die Versteigerung von Freddie Mercurys Nachlass.

Anfang September wäre Freddie Mercury 77 Jahre alt geworden, knapp 32 Jahre nach seinem Tod kommt nun sein Nachlass unter den Hammer. Ein absoluter Hit, die ganze Auktion. Eine Glosse von Ralf Thume.

Its a FULL MOON episode! Which means Jonah Emerson Bell and I scrapped the last bit of juice out of our day and recorded this heart offering to y'all. @blind_stallion_space_wizard and i are now advisors on the new app ASTROSTAR doing their soft launch this week, introducing an app that connect you LIVE to real astrologers in real time, able to video, audio and text chat your astrology readings. Jonah will be giving a talk at the tail end of Mercurys cycle and offering “Oh what a perfect day!” as his first live lecture on Friday 9/15 at 8pm Mountain. You can “book” these live scheduled readings to view in the app — and BONUS — I'll be going live there, too! on Tuesday 9/18 at 8pm Central. Download AstroStar now https://liveastrostar.page.link/Dumc USE CODE P8nuf0 to log in ⚡️ jonah mentioned a podcast w Chris Brennan and Demetra George talking about Venus in Rx astrology and Barbie, as well as her book ANCIENT ASTROLOGY if you were interested. Find lauren at www.ursidae.us and listen to Jonah's musical mayhem on Soundcloud - the MELEE REPORT out Fridays weekly! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ursidae/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ursidae/support

[00:00:00] Jerry White: The best lesson that I have learned is that I need to accept responsibility for what I do, to admit when I need help and to be absolutely of high integrity and faithfulness in carrying out what I say I will do. The second thing that I would say was that people are my most important asset. +++++++++++++++++ Tommy Thomas: Our guest today is Jerry White, The President Emeritus for The Navigators International. Jerry enjoyed a distinguished career in the United States Air Force, starting out in mission control during the very early days of the American space program. He retired from the Air Force as a two-star general.  I must confess that I was a bit nervous about interviewing Jerry. Aside from his distinguished military career, he's an accomplished writer and is very prominent in Christian ministry circles. I even went so far as to ask Doug Nuenke, a previous podcast guest and close friend of Jerry's to be my co-host for the episode.  But on the day of the recording, Doug had a family emergency and had to bow out. In the end, it turned out to be a wonderful experience for me. Jerry was a great guest, very genuine and transparent. Let's pick up the conversation.  [00:01:24] Tommy Thomas: Before we get too deep into your professional career, take me back a little bit to your upbringing and your childhood. What was that like?  [00:01:31] Jerry White: Let me just summarize that for you. And I'm headed back there within the next day or two because a cousin just died and I'll be performing a memorial service. I grew up in a little town in Iowa by the name of Garden City, 100 people, a farm community north of Ames, just off I-35. My mother had me when she was 17, my father divorced her, abandoned us when I was an infant. So I was raised in that little Norwegian farm community by my mother and my grandfather, and had a wonderful upbringing. I still go back there, and I know all the families and they know us. And then that, of course was a disaster for my mother. What was a disaster for me is at age eight, my mother remarried, and we got in the car with a new stepfather whom I did not really know at all, and headed west for Spokane, Washington, leaving behind everything that I knew and loved and cared for. And I was one upset and anxious kid. And I should say that my stepfather was a wonderful person. I have absolutely zero negative to say about him. He was stuck with us as a new father with a spoiled young eight-year-old. We got to Spokane, Washington, and it was in that context that a group of businessmen in post-World War for our country and the USA veterans were coming back and we had a community center there, and we were in a neighborhood where there was no church. And he and a group of business guys, ordinary men, started a Sunday school. And I started going to that and really started thinking through and being confronted with who Jesus was and the gospel. And so, at about age 11, I made a personal commitment to Christ. And this man, Bob Sheffler, was my mentor for his entire life. He guided me through those early years. My parents did not know the Lord and they later came to faith, and he didn't know that he was discipling, but he was discipling me. And when I went off after high school, by the way, having been very involved in Youth for Christ and my church and many other things, off to study electrical engineering, it was Bob that drove me across the state of Washington to Seattle at the University of Washington, told me where to live, and dropped me off. And it was there that I met The Navigators. My first roommate had been led to Christ by The Navigators and he started to disciple me, teach me how to have a quiet time, scripture, memory, and study the Bible. And so that was my early childhood. And it was traumatic. It was not easy. And but God stepped in and really changed my life, and I made Lordship commitments and ended up at a university in touch with The Navigators.  Though, The Navigators weren't really very big then. [00:04:47] Tommy Thomas: So how did you choose electrical engineering?  [00:04:50] Jerry White: I was pretty good at math and none of my family really had gone to university and so I just fell into it. I said that's one of the more difficult subjects and I'm pretty good in mathematics. So, when I signed up, I signed up for electrical engineering. I didn't know hardly anything about it, to be honest with you. And so that's how I ended up there. And I struggled through, I made it, I didn't know whether I was smart or whether I wasn't, and stayed with electrical engineering and ended up getting a bachelor's degree in it. [00:05:27] Tommy Thomas: I was the same way. I studied EE and it was a hard road for me. It was a hard way to go to college.  [00:05:32] Jerry White: Yeah, it was. We had a whole bunch of navy veterans who were electronic technicians and all the labs I would go into, I didn't know what end was up, and they just did it just like this. They knew everything and I was just struggling to figure out what end was up. And I worked my way through college. I did not have any scholarships of any sort. And so, it was a hard time, but it was also a time of tremendous growth spiritually. And it was there that I met Mary and we were married before our senior year in college, and she went to work for Boeing Aircraft Company, dropped out of school and I doubled up to 21, 22 and 23 hours and just forced my way through that last year of school. And on the day I graduated, I was commissioned in the Air Force and we jumped in the car and headed into the United States Air Force. +++++++++++++++++   [00:06:31] Tommy Thomas: So, when you went into the Air Force, were you thinking it would be a career at that point?  [00:06:36] Jerry White: No, everybody had to serve in the universal draft. I went through the Air Force, ROTC, and went into pilot training. And I was just going to serve. I had no idea, Tommy, whether I'd be a career or not because Boeing Aircraft Company had a job waiting for me. And so, I figured I'd serve whatever time I need to serve and probably end up coming back to Seattle. But it didn't go the way I planned. I flew for a year and was just near the end of pilot training. And though I didn't know it, they needed to get rid of about a third of the pilot training class. And never having failed at any flights or anything, I had one not too good of a ride in formation jet and went up and took the next ride and the instructor landed and he said, Well White, you can fly two ship jet formation. Okay, but I don't think you're gonna be able to fly four ship formation, and within three days I was out of pilot training. Done. No recourse. So, we said, what in the world is going on? I'd never failed at anything.  And so, we prayed and said just told the Air Force, send us anywhere you want. Just give me an engineering job somewhere. And with absolutely no hint from me or any input from anybody that I know, the Air Force sent me to Cape Canaveral in the New American Space Program. Tommy, I didn't even know who it was . And I became a mission controller, got right smack in the middle of all of the new stuff that the Air Force was doing. The man flights, the Mercurys, the Geminis, Atlas, Titan, Polaris, you name it. And every conceivable kind of rocket. And in that I got a new glimpse of the future. [00:08:35] Tommy Thomas: What do you remember about your first management job?  [00:08:39] Jerry White:  The first management job was in the Air Force. I was one of six mission controllers, and we had to manage all the assets on the Atlantic missile range for all of the contractors and projects that were going on at the time. And the first thing I remember is how do you please everybody when you can't give everybody what they want? And so, I would put together each week a plan for the entire missile range, for all the tests, all the launches, all the ground tests, and then walk into a session of 50 contractors at each other's throats and mine for vying for time on the range. And it really taught me how to navigate some hard waters. And it taught me that I needed to know what I was doing. And so it was a good time. It wasn't classically a management job because I wasn't in charge of anybody, but I was in charge of assets and had to work with people over whom I had no authority. And that was probably the best thing for me. [00:09:53] Tommy Thomas:  I was going to say you may not have had the authority, but you had to have the influence.  [00:09:58] Jerry White:  I did have authority in the sense that I could say no to anything when I worked as a mission controller, if I had to make decisions related to the range and the tests and with people who were far outranked me. Because when you're in the spot, you have the authority. [00:10:17] Tommy Thomas: You're the third general officer that I've had the privilege to interview. One of them, Jack Briggs at the Springs Rescue Mission, of course. And I don't know that you'd ever have met Mark McQueen. He was a two-star in the army.  He's a city manager at Panama City now. And he stepped into his job as city manager 10 days before Hurricane Michael hit Panama City. [00:10:36] Jerry White:  Oh my goodness.  [00:10:38] Tommy Thomas: That was a baptism by fire for him. I asked both of these guys the question,  What's the most important lesson you learned in the military that you've carried forward? [00:10:48] Jerry White:   The best lesson that I have learned is that I need to accept responsibility for what I do, to admit when I need help and to be absolutely of high integrity and faithfulness in carrying out what I say I will do. I'd say that was the key thing that I learned. The second thing that I would say was that people are my most important asset. Nothing happens without people. I also learned that even though you're in an authoritarian environment in the military you don't misuse your authority. You don't lord it over anybody, but everybody. The colonels and generals who worked for me, I told them, I said, ladies and gentlemen, we're overhead. We don't fix airplanes. We don't fly them. We don't create them. Our job is totally to clear the way so that the people really doing the work can actually do the work out in the field. I learned that by the school of hard knocks in terms of making a lot of mistakes and watching some pretty good people who were leaders. [00:12:04] Tommy Thomas: I want to ask you a second chances question. I've got some good responses from this. Richard Paul Evans, a novelist, said, “Sometimes the greatest hope in our life is just a second chance to do what we should have done right the first time.” And I'm sure you've had the opportunity in the past to make that kind of decision. What goes into your mind and heart when you're thinking about giving somebody and senior leadership a second chance for something fairly egregious?  [00:12:33] Jerry White:   If you have something fairly egregious it depends on several things. One is moral, the second is legal, and the third is judgment. In other words, they just made a mistake. The moral and the legal. You have to abide by the policies in place and you need to hold people accountable. And I've had that both in The Navigators as well as in the military, but when a person's performance is not up to par, then well, what I ask them, I said, okay, here is my highest value. My highest value is if you tell me you're going to do something, then I expect you to do it. And if you can't do it, I want you to tell me. And if you need help, please ask. But please do not tell me that you're going to do something and then not do it. So, I hold them accountable and then if they, nobody is perfect.  I've had people who didn't do all that I wanted them to do, and I have to discern whether it's an issue of competence, character, or some other thing that they just did not know what to do. But the basic thing is not to wait until they fail. In other words, to walk with your subordinates, if you want to call it that, as they're going through the process. So both of you can catch it if it isn't going the right direction. And in that regard, particularly in The Navigators, which is a volunteer organization, you really want to give people a challenge. But I still remember so many challenges I had that I did not have a clue what to do and had to get lots of help. And I made lots of mistakes and people were very tolerant of me. Didn't make any egregious mistakes, but ones that were enough to know that I wasn't performing as well as I could have.  ++++++++++++++++++++   [00:14:40] Tommy Thomas: Let me go to maybe a deeper side of that, and let's think about dangerous behaviors that you've seen that derail leader's careers. The biggest thing that derails leaders' careers is not understanding themselves and their own gifts and limitations. But the worst is when they have a moral failure. And I don't necessarily mean sexually moral, a moral failure in terms of integrity and judgment. [00:14:47] Jerry White:  The biggest thing that derails leaders' careers is not understanding themselves and their own gifts and limitations. But the worst is when they have a moral failure. And I don't necessarily mean sexually moral, a moral failure in terms of integrity and judgment. The thing I look for in a leader is that they're a learner. That they know what they know. They know what they don't know, and they're always on the grow. That is, they are learning to develop themselves and they don't make excuses. When they don't do quite well, they take the responsibility rather than trying to cover up for themselves.  Anybody who will admit that they did something wrong and said, I need to learn how to do that better, I've got a lot of hope for that person because then they'll grow, they'll continue to engage. People gave me second chances. People took a risk with me on many things. And put their own careers on the line instead of just saying, oh it's too much of a risk. And I've had several things where that's happened. I remember one situation, I was going over into a war zone in a critical area of Croatia, and there were some questions at the Pentagon as to why I was doing this.  And I had a reason. And the latter says, if Jerry says it's important, we'll back him and let me go. Because they trusted me.  [00:16:23] Tommy Thomas: Let's change over to mentors for a minute. You mentioned the guy early in your life that gave you the road to the University of Washington and helps you out there.  Who else has been an influential mentor to you? [00:16:32] Jerry White: There were several people. This was a businessman, Bob Sheffler, who was my early mentor. Then in the Air Force when I failed out of pilot training, there was an instructor pilot by the name of Bill Waldrip. He became very significant in leadership in the Officers Christian Fellowship. And Bill and Doris really were our friends, and he was a mentor who was always there. We worked together through the years, both with The Navs and with Officers Christian Fellowship (OCF) and I would ask him for council when I was going to leave the Air Force and come full-time with The Navigators. Bill is one of the men that I called and asked for counsel. I had a pastor back in Dayton, Ohio, who was a wonderful man, and he really believed in us. Here we were just young. Officers, little kids. And he believed in us and he encouraged us. And then later on Loren Sanny, the former president of the Navigators and Leroy Eims, one of our key early leaders in The Navigators, all were wonderful mentors to me. And whether it was intentional mentoring, I don't know, but what they did is they gave me opportunities and they gave me counsel and they interacted with me. And I would listen to them very carefully as to their teaching and learn from them. Each of these people were very different. I don't know if any of them thought, oh, I'm mentoring Jerry. They were just giving their life to me at a point in time in my life when I needed them.  [00:18:13] Tommy Thomas: Do you think the most mentoring that you've done, has it been intentional, or do you think you just showed up? [00:18:19] Jerry White: Tommy, in these last years has been more intentional because through the Lausanne Movement and through other places people have asked me to mentor them and I make a difference between discipling. Of course, when you're doing like we do in The Navigators, it's one-on-one discipling, not exactly mentoring. That's helping people with spiritual growth, getting the going in their lives. Then we have what I call coaching. And coaching is where somebody really wants you to help. Send in the place, give guidance as they do it. But mentoring for me, working on their agenda and with a few people I'm mentoring right now I say, what do you want to learn? Where can I help you? What kinds of issues do you have? I have one man in Hawaii who calls me every three months and has a list of things he wants to talk about. And I go by his agenda, not by mind. Now, if I've got a young leader and perhaps someone who works for me, I'll be a bit more structured in terms of what I'll ask them to do and to coach them, to give them experiences, guided experiences and opportunities. ++++++++++++++++++   [00:19:37] Tommy Thomas: Thinking back over maybe the Air Force and or The Navigators, what's the most ambitious project you've ever tackled and how did you bring your team along?    [00:19:45] Jerry White: There were a lot of ambitious projects. Probably the most challenging was taking the responsibility for being president of The Navigators from Loren Sanny, who had been in the role for 30 years following Dawson Trotman. And the biggest project that we took on is who are The Navigators? What are we supposed to do and how should we do it? We needed to reassess the entire direction of The Navigators as we were growing by leaps and bounds internationally and in the US, and I still remember with my team trying to come up with things that we needed to do to bring these people together. And two of the attempts were wonderful attempts, but they didn't work. They were good. But they didn't work. And finally, as a team, we decided to bring the core leadership of The Navigators worldwide together in Cypress. And I'd say, okay, we've got a blank sheet of paper. Who are The Navigators? What has God called us to do and how should we do it? And God brought us through that time with an affirmation of what we call the core, our calling core vision, core values and vision. And we just did a review of that a few months ago. After 20 years. I expected it to last for 10 years, and it's lasted 20 now. It was not just me. What I did, I gave permission for the leaders to speak. Their heart. And I had a team that was a phenomenal team to help guide that along the way. That was probably the most ambitious thing I've ever undertaken. [00:21:50] Tommy Thomas: If we learn from our mistakes, why are most others so afraid to make mistakes?  [00:21:55] Jerry White: Usually it's pride and ego that we don't admit when we make mistakes. I think a big issue is that we don't understand our own limitations and who we are. And that's why I think that, as people grow in leadership, they need to assess who they are and what their needs are and what they can grow in. The one thing that keeps people from taking risks is fear. They're afraid they will fail. And if there's an atmosphere within their company, their ministry, their organization of not tolerating mistakes and failure, then you'll walk in fear. And if a leader has to have someone coming up to them every other day and asking, is this okay?  Is this okay? What must I do? That's not going to work. They've got to be willing to take risks and I have to be willing as a leader to take risks on them and to give them the reins and say, go after it. You do this. Do what is best in your own eyes, and if you need some help, let's talk about it. [00:23:12] Tommy Thomas:  What are you most excited about in life right now?  [00:23:16] Jerry White: Oh, I am most excited right now about the whole concept of the theology of work. That God calls us to our jobs, to our work, to be an engineer, to be a crane operator, to be a computer programmer, to be a manager, and to understand that God's great calling is not just to quote what we call ministry, but our ministry is our work. And the reason for that is that is where the lost people of this world are. They are the people that ordinary believers work alongside every day. And I'm very excited about that and I'm doing a lot of work with the Luanne movement and the theology of work and for our next Luanne Congress in September of next year to have upwards of 40% of the 5,000 coming out of the workplace. And besides, Tommy, the future of missions is going to be people going in their professions because we can't get into most countries that we want to go to.  ++++++++++++++++++++   [00:24:34] Tommy Thomas: Let me get you to respond to a couple of quotes before I jump over into board service some, because I want to make sure we have some time there. John Quincy Adams said, “Patience and persistence have a magical effect before which difficulties and obstacles vanish.” Any thoughts from your experience where you've seen patience and persistence work for you?  [00:24:55] Jerry White: They're two very different things. Patience is awaiting not seeing the results right away. The biggest one is persistence. When I look back over my career, I didn't think I was all that smart, but I was persistent, and I worked hard. So even when some of the most boring jobs or some of the most distasteful things, you are persistent and work through it. I have a little series of things when I say, okay, this is a good employee, someone who's competent. That as they know what to do and that they have character, obviously that's a huge one. But beyond that, they're faithful. And I will take faithfulness over the most competent person because I know that person will get the job done. The smartest guy or gal around, if they're not persistent and faithful, they will not get the job done. Everything has a deadline. And now the patience part, I've not given quite as much thought to that. But if there's patience, it's patience with people. And not usurping what they're doing and overriding them. I had to learn that early on that I, even though I could do it better than some other people, certain things I needed to let them do it. Just like your kids riding a tricycle or a bicycle, you have to let them fall. Maybe catch them when they fall, but patience in trusting them.  [00:26:43] Tommy Thomas: Somebody has compared leadership to a boat with two oars, one of the oars is people and relationships, the other is results.  Your thoughts?  [00:26:53] Jerry White: Certainly, the people are a key issue. I have to be a little careful about the results on that one. Certainly, everybody needs to have results. I would probably make the other, or goals and directions. In other words, to know where you're going. Because now do I want results? Yes, I do want results, but in so many cases we can't create the results, particularly in an organization like The Navigators or any of our Christian ministries. You can't make anything happen. The only thing you can do, Tommy, is to make an environment where something can happen and then see God miraculously work through it. But even in the secular world there is limited control over results and you have to let people do their job. And certainly, we need to have clearly defined outcomes that are adjusted quarter by quarter.  +++++++++++++++++++++ [00:28:00] Tommy Thomas: Thanks to Jerry White for a great conversation. Jerry will rejoin us in a few weeks to share leadership lessons on board governance that he has learned over the years.  In Episode 81, Christin McClave was our guest. We discussed her leadership journey from Johnson and Johnson to Cardon Industries and beyond. In addition to Christin's corporate leadership experience, she has a lot of experience serving on both private sector and nonprofit boards. Christen joins us next week to share insights on board governance.  [00:28:42] Christin McClave: The boards that I've been on that have been very well-functioning from a nonprofit standpoint, really do have a nice balance of people who are still in industry. People who are very well versed in audit and finance and can pick out what might not look right on the financials or where things are, could potentially go wrong in the future if they're not managed properly.    Links and Resources JobfitMatters Website Next Gen Nonprofit Leadership with Tommy Thomas Jerry White is a very accomplished writer.  Most of his books can be found at NavPress (www.navpress.com).  Others at Thrift Books (thriftbooks.com).  Three are listed below: Honesty, Morality, and Conscience: Making Wise Choices in the Gray Areas of Life – by Jerry White Friends and Friendship: The Secrets of Drawing Closer - by Jerry White Dangers Men Face, 25th Anniversary Edition - by Jerry White   Connect Tommy Thomas - tthomas@jobfitmatters.com Tommy's LinkedIn Profile Jerry White's LinkedIn Profile  

[00:00:00] Caryn Ryan: At the end of the day, sometimes it's the simplest questions and sticking with the simplest, high-level questions that matters for solving problems and creating transformation. Because I remember one of the first questions I asked the traders was, “Where did the oil go that you thought you were trading?” They didn't know where the oil had gone. And so, we spent a lot of time having to come back to that question and analyzing, digging through years of data and models that would go from trading models that went from the floor to the ceiling. But we always had to come back to that basic question, “Where did the oil go?” ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Our guest this week is Caryn Ryan, the founder and managing member of Missionwell.  Missionwell was formed out of the belief that nonprofit organizations should benefit from the same efficiency and expertise as the for-profit sector, despite the significant resource differences between the two sectors.  Caryn spent 20 years with Amoco Corporation and BP plc, and then later with the merged company BP / Amoco. She was recruited by World Vision International, where she served as their Chief Financial Officer. Caryn was an early champion for virtual and shared services models for the nonprofit sector. Let's pick up on my conversation.  [00:01:20] Tommy Thomas: Before we dive too deep into your professional career, let's go back to your childhood. I'm always curious about how people got their start. What's your happiest memory of your childhood?  [00:01:30] Caryn Ryan: That's an interesting question. I'm not sure I have a single happiest memory, but certainly one of my happiest memories is a trip to downtown Detroit. I lived just north of Detroit growing up, going shopping with my mom and my grandma and my sister and getting a new winter coat, and shopping at Sanders. Have you heard of Sanders?  [00:01:48] Tommy Thomas: No, we didn't have that in the south, I don't think.  [00:01:51] Caryn Ryan:   They're a local chocolatier near Detroit, and sometimes even out here on the west coast, you can find chocolate from them. But we had a hot fudge sunday after we went shopping. So, it's a wonderful memory.  [00:02:03] Tommy Thomas: Thinking back on that, what was the greatest gift you got from your parents?  [00:02:07] Caryn Ryan: My perseverance. My parents themselves came from families that didn't have much and so they had come through a kind of late depression era and they knew the value of a penny and they knew that to get ahead, you had to really persevere. And they passed that on to their kids.  [00:02:26] Tommy Thomas: What are people who don't know you always surprised to learn about? [00:02:30] Caryn Ryan: A lot of people meet me through my company Missionwell.  And they assume that I'm an accountant, and that I like the details, but I don't and I'm not. And over time as time goes on, usually they see that I'm more of an analyzer of leaders and situations and work and, a really pragmatic solution finder, a really persistent person looking for solutions. I'm an entrepreneur, although, who would have thought it?  And I'm a reasonable strategist. And those who are extra observant will probably also be able to tell that my work is my Christian mission in life.  [00:03:07] Tommy Thomas:   When you went to college how did you decide on your major?  [00:03:10] Caryn Ryan: Hey, I'm from Detroit.  It's the Motor City. And growing up in a rather poor family, I wanted security. So, I thought right away I'm going into business in some capacity. I didn't have any idea what aspect of business, so I double majored in economics and psychology for my undergrad and for my MBA. I added finance and information technology and some organization development and organizational behavior. So, it was all general business-oriented, but with a core of finance and HR-ish kinds of things. And that's pretty much been what I've stuck with throughout my entire career. It's always been something to do with business whether that's a non-profit business or a for-profit business, and something to do with that core of finance and HR, but then a whole bunch of things peripherally around that, that those can branch out into a whole lot of things. [00:04:02] Tommy Thomas: Thinking back to the first time you had a staff to report to you, what do you remember about that?  [00:04:08] Caryn Ryan:  That would've been in the Financial Analysis Department of Amoco production, that's part of the old, pre-BP, part of the oil and gas exploration production division. There. And I have to say, I was a mediocre boss at best. I didn't see the role as servant leadership initially. I really saw it as leading a production team to goals. And in addition,  I had a boss at the time who was a great example of how not to treat people. But as my time in that seat progressed I learned that every boss has to protect their people. They have to advocate for them, and they have to develop their staff. And these are the things that allow people to flourish. And to this day maybe just based on how tough that job was, one of my joys is mentoring young people and bringing them along. And going back to that bad boss, as the years have gone by, I've thought about that bad boss from time to time. And I think that people who don't treat other people well, usually have one or two things going on in their life. Tommy one, they either have really low self-esteem and they must assuage that by criticizing and tearing down other people. Or two, they're motivated by greed and power. Understanding that has helped me quickly diagnose, is this a person type A or is it a person type B when they're really behaving badly. And if it's an issue of self-esteem, there's a way you can work with people over time to just bring them up, help them feel better about themselves, and help them transform how they interact in the world.  And I think that's part of our job too. So, he taught me a lot.  [00:05:44] Tommy Thomas: We can learn from sometimes less-than-ideal circumstances that's for sure. In September of 2002, you were living in London, you have a senior-level finance position with BP, probably very well compensated, I would imagine. What happened to cause you to leave the private sector and take that CFO job with World Vision International?  [00:06:04] Caryn Ryan: It was really lovely working in London. I thought you might ask that question. I had my family with me and I bought and remodeled an old home in Hamstead for the family, and we had an amazing life with fun schools for the kids and lots of travel and adventures. But if I step back from that, go back about five years before I'd already started noticing in the late, mid to late 1990s before the merger of Amico and BP that something was missing in my life. And this feeling grew while I was in London. And until around the year 2000, I went to a choir practice at the American Church in London. And I saw a poster and it was for an Alpha class and I was convicted. I needed to go and talk to my pastor about it. And he tried to persuade me not to, and I said, no, I need it. I need it. And I went to this Alpha class. It was 10 weeks long, and these questions about faith just poured out of me. And I was talking about Doubting Thomas in the Bible. That was me. And I told God eventually that if he would speak to me plainly on two big life questions, I'd be his person forever. And he did, for better or for worse, he did. He spoke to me in the Holy Spirit that week of the Alpha class, and very clearly in very plain language, and advised me what I needed to do. And I have been his person ever since. Although I'll never be the type of Christian who believes easily, and definitely I was a late comer to having a really true deep belief. But it's a commitment and it's a promise. And entrances, interestingly, I left Amoco with BP at that time without a job about two years later. But shortly around that time when I took the Alpha class, BP very generously referred me to Nick Isbister, who you know.  And he is a consultant or coach who looks at motivated abilities. And during this time when I was wrestling with various issues including my career, I cannot tell you how much his SIMA profile meant to me. As I was really trying to decide whether to stay or leave BP, where was I going next? And it was really part of God's gift to me. He was part of God's gift to me. And to see my gifts laid out so beautifully and my motivated abilities laid out so clearly really helped me move forward. And it helped me take that step to give my notice to BP and really have the view of, God has a plan and I just want to see what adventures are out there next. And I've used his profile from time to time. I go back and read it and review it and just try to understand this is still me and, what do I need to pay attention to now?  And it's been amazing.  [00:08:37] Tommy Thomas: So did World Vision come looking for you, or did you go looking for them?  [00:08:41] Caryn Ryan:  After I left BP I made a matrix about 57 different things, and over the next few months I whittled away at those to try to figure out what I should do. And when I got it down to the top three, I was like I don't think being a CFO was the problem. I like that. I don't think I was in the right place in a for-profit. I think I need a nonprofit or a Christian organization. And I had one-third criteria also, but around that time that I'd just gotten that narrowed down, I got a call from somebody else who you know, which is Rob Stevens. And he said to me, are you interested in a CFO role with World Vision International? And I paused for a minute, and I said, is that a Christian organization that helps kids overseas? And he said yes. And I started thinking, isn't that amazing? This hits these top criteria that I've just spent months trying to get whittled down to. And I said, yes, I'm interested. And it went from there. So, he shepherded that process. And I did end up working at World Vision for over three years.  [00:09:49] Tommy Thomas: Was that in London?  [00:09:52] Caryn Ryan: No, that was actually World Vision, out here in California.  After I left BP, I moved back to the United States, to Chicago, and then that's when Rob connected with me, and then I ended up moving out here to California.  I love it here. And I'm staying here. I've been here ever since.  [00:10:11] Tommy Thomas: So, years ago, probably, I guess probably about the time, that you were doing that transition. I was doing some work for World Vision in Seattle, and I had the privilege of recruiting a guy named Atu Tandon from Citibank. And about six months after Atul started to work at World Vision he gave me a call.  He is an Indian fellow, so he had that clipped British Indian accent. And he says, Tommy, If we had this many meetings at Citibank, we wouldn't have had a bank. And he just was overwhelmed by the number of meetings at World Vision. My question to you is, what was the biggest surprise you had from leaving something like BP to going to the nonprofit world in World Vision in particular?  [00:10:58] Caryn Ryan: That Atul, he is so efficient. I can see where World Vision's style of just having so many meetings to build consensus would make him go crazy. But for me, when I went there, I mentioned earlier that although I've been a Christian nominally since my baptism as a baby in the Catholic Church. And spent a lot of my entire life going to church in my twenties and thirties.  I actually view my actual timing of becoming a truly committed Christian as the beginning of that Alpha class I talked about. That's when I intentionally said to God, I'm yours. But it was so late, it was in my early forties before Christianity meant more than just going to church on a Sunday and sending my kids to Sunday school programs or singing in the choir or volunteering at all these to do all these financial and HR tasks. So it was shortly after that commitment that I went to World Vision, and I have to say that I expected something different from the industrial sector that I had just spent 20 years working in. And it was a surprise to me that it was an organization of regular people with similar people issues to any for-profit I'd ever worked at. And I just had to go back and think, okay, wait a minute. Okay. The 12 Apostles were, for the most part, just really regular guys. But they were just called to be where they were. It's not that they were people who were outstanding in any way. In fact, they were ordinary people. And at World Vision, it was the same thing. It's just a strong sense of being people being called by God. But they're regular people and they have regular problems, and they're like all people. They're broken. And that was a surprise. I just felt like it was going to be something different, that I'd be working at some higher plane. But it was really a great lesson that people are people with all the usual awards and that Christians or we're all just in need of God's grace. +++++++++++++++++   [00:12:55] Tommy Thomas: Looking back over 20 years in the private sector, what was the greatest experience or lesson you learned there that you were able to take forward? Transformation emerges from tackling problems. [00:13:02] Caryn Ryan: I think it would have to be that transformation emerges from tackling problems. When I was in London, working at BP after the merger of Amoco at BP, my business unit experienced a very tiny little loss. Maybe 100-150 million - in one month. And it was just big enough to get the attention of the CEO of BP you know Sir John or Lord John Brown. And that was while I was serving as the CFO of BP's Global Oil Trading Operations. And I had to take responsibility for that loss. And for all of these financial calls that were actually outside of my direct reports, they were spread all the way across this huge global trading operation where oil and gas were just traded in and out day and night, and I had to dig into that loss. Why did we have that loss? Even with a lot of pushback from these genius traders, who said you wouldn't understand.  I had to find all the weak controls, diagnose some pretty complex issues, and bring in teams of people and experts to help. And we did. We brought in smart staff and great consultants, a new compliance officer, and it just really professionalized our services and made us stronger and really better as a result. So what I took away was that digging in and taking responsibility for that loss and working it through in detail, was really the start of a journey toward transformation. And so you can't look at a problem and think, oh my gosh, I'm doomed. Or, this is just a problem. That problem is probably going to be an opportunity for you. And I've seen this over and over. If you dig into a problem from that problem, if you work at it, you can get transformation and you can end up in a much better place than where you were. And even if people think you're wrong early on, and if you just need to persist through, get the job done, work through the problem, and then later you'll see as I did that it was transformative. And people tend to come around over time, even if it takes a long time, and they'll say, wow, it's really good that you did what you did and wow, we really saw some good things happen as a result of you and your team of people who came in to figure out why things went wrong. And I guess another thing that comes to mind here is that at the end of the day, sometimes it's the simplest questions and sticking with the simplest, high-level questions that matter for solving problems and creating transformation. Because I remember one of the first questions I asked the traders was,  Where did the oil go that you thought you were trading? They didn't know where the oil had gone. And so, we spent a lot of time having to come back to that question over and analyzing, digging through years of data and models that would go from trading models that went from the floor to the ceiling. But we always had to come back to that basic question, where did the oil go? And that really helped guide us through and get to the bottom of it. And by getting that simple question asked, everything changed about how we traded oil over the next few years. So that kind of led me also into thinking that re-engineering is important and that even now at Mission I go back to a lot of my re-engineering experiences and when we have a new church or a new ministry, or a new nonprofit that comes and works with us at Missionwell, we like to re-engineer, rethink, how do they do their work? What are the problems they're facing? Doing that and solving those problems even if we have to push through some barriers with our business partners, really helps us deliver high-quality services. And it gives them more time to focus on the mission and it can become a piece of their transformation. So, this idea of viewing problems as opportunities for transformation, I think is important for me and for our teams at Missionwell, and probably for more people, more than they think.  [00:17:00] Tommy Thomas:  So of all the work you've ever done, what's the most ambitious project you've tackled?  [00:17:07] Caryn Ryan: That project I just mentioned might have been one of them, that was very all-encompassing. But another one that comes to mind is at Amoco, and this was before I moved to London. We implemented SAP and SAP is an integrated end-to-end business and financial system. And it affected everybody on how they worked. Just everybody across the entire organization. At that time, I was working in the chemical sector of Amoco and what I did there is I just found a great leader to come in and take that job. I had an inside track just from the networking I had done, and I just knew somebody who had the skills to do this. And after she came, she helped the chemical sector, and our sector did better than most in terms of implementing this. It was happening across the entire corporation, and our sector did better than most. And when I was then transferred to another downstream sector the one that retails oil and gas and has some refineries, I brought her in there because they had so many problems that they couldn't even, this is for a huge Fortune 15 company. They couldn't close their books. They didn't know how they were doing in terms of trucking oil back and forth to refineries. Everything was not working. Nothing was working. And when she came in, just bringing in the right leader, just calming things down focusing on the right problems. There was so much that needed to get fixed. And she really just had the expertise to do it. So you really just have to bring in the right person. But it wasn't just her, it was the whole team. It was all the leaders. It was pretty much this commitment that we have to get in and solve this problem. Knowing it wasn't going to be easy, knowing that it was going to be messy and complicated, but it was such a high priority. You just, we all knew it was a top priority. And the team, because they understood that it was such an important priority. Everybody was involved, and this was hundreds of people, hundreds and hundreds of people. Everybody got involved and took their piece and parts and just worked on delivering it so we could get the business back up and running and get the books closed and make sure that the downstream operations were functioning with the information that they needed. [00:19:22] Tommy Thomas: With ambition I guess can come risk.  What's the biggest risk you ever took in business?  [00:19:27] Caryn Ryan: I might go more personal on the risk side.  Maybe one of the biggest risks I've taken with starting Missionwell.  While from a business perspective, the risk was not having enough capital or knowledge or understanding. I risked a lot of my own savings and my earnings potential. And I knew that if we failed, I was responsible for my staff losing their jobs and my business partners losing services that can be difficult to get filled. So I think that was a pretty big risk. And my SIMA profile, if you were to read it, says  I'm an overcomer and a maximizer in that I persist through obstacles. And all those things have been true. And I think if you go into a situation where you're taking risks and you understand what risks you're taking then you'll manage them and the rewards that you get are really incredible. It's been all the time at Mission Oil and our growth over the last few years has just been amazing. We recruit better and stronger people. We don't need as much capital now. And we just help so many organizations with great missions. Taking risks - you have to do it.  No pain, no gain.  Risk is the pain of managing it is significant, but the rewards are definitely worth it. ++++++++++++++++++++   [00:20:44] Tommy Thomas:  You mentioned hiring and building a staff. What's the main thing you're looking for in a senior person?  [00:20:50] Caryn Ryan: Right now, essentially our recruiting is guided by our values. I'm looking for a fit in terms of, is this a person who really believes that nonprofits and or religious organizations matter in the world? And if that box is checked, we can proceed. And then we ask, does this person value people? And do they know how to value people and how to motivate people? And then we'll ask relative to our partnering value, is this a person who can relate well to others? Is it a person who can help them? And they need to be able to pass that too. And then relative to principles, we're looking for character, good, really good character in people. So we are looking for people who can talk to us about character and when they've used aspects of the character to make decisions. And then finally we'll look at process and ask, is this a person who really knows how to look at, we're in the business of offering services, so they need to be able to look at work as a process and say, how can we make this better, faster, smoother work better for our business partners? And if they can hit all those and have the technical or functional expertise that we need, then chances are they're going to be a good fit.  [00:22:01] Tommy Thomas: Wow. So, what does the interview process look like for you? Say you spot somebody, and you think this looks good.  What does the interview process look like from start to finish? Is it a day, is it a week?  [00:22:12] Caryn Ryan: The interview process at my company starts out with our HR department. They do a variety of pre-checks, pre-screens, and then depending on the seniority of the person I might do up to three meetings with the person. And those are typically via Zoom because we're oftentimes hiring people to work remotely. Even now moving from our regular professional staff to the leadership level. We're looking to start moving more and more remote with that. So sometimes I don't even meet our staff or our senior people now in person. It's strictly via Zoom. So, we've learned how to form relationships. We've learned how to test and assess. We've learned how to talk to people on Zoom and make the connections that we need to make with them and do the assessments that we need to do. It helps that one of my HR staff is actually remote too, so she really deeply understands remote recruiting. And by the time a candidate comes to me, they've been pretty well vetted by my team. And I will dig in on the leadership qualities sometimes so that the questions that I'll ask are similar even to some of the questions you're asking me. Tell me about a time when you faced a big decision and how did you handle it? So, we're looking for not only the values match, but to some extent what are the leadership competencies that are going to be needed for that particular job. And asking them to come back with behavioral or observational data to us so that we can actually get a feel for how they actually operate day to day. We allow people a lot of time to ask us questions too. We're always constantly trying to stop and pause. It's not a one-way decision. We know that.  We also allow a whole lot of time to answer questions when we bring a person on. That's not the end. We know that a great orientation for the person is important. If they're going to be a fit, they need to be oriented really well. And we need to do a lot of check-ins with them early on to just be sure things are working okay for them. So, we view it a little bit holistically, you have great job descriptions posting appropriately doing the right amount of interviewing with people, and then making sure that they get settled in when they come. ++++++++++++++++++++++   [00:24:27] Tommy Thomas: I want to change gears a minute and say that if you were on a nonprofit version of a Shark Tank show and you had nonprofit organizations presenting their case to you, what are you going to have to know really well before you open up your checkbook? [00:24:46] Caryn Ryan: This is interesting, but really Tommy, I don't think it's any different for a non-profit, than it would be for a for-profit organization. So, you're always asking, do you have a good vision? And a really big and important question is, do you have the resources? And that's in terms of money but it's also in terms of the network of people to support you in making steps towards your vision and making things happen. And then do you have the drive? Do you feel called for this?  How do you demonstrate that? How do you demonstrate that you have the call and that you have the drive? Are you a persister? One thing that will happen for every new organization is just tons of obstacles and problems. They're nonstop. And so, you have to have that ability to persist and to say, look, I see this obstacle. Am I going to go over it, under it, or around it? But for sure I'm going to go around it or get through this. You need to have that kind of a foundational trait characteristic. I think the difference really between a for-profit and non-profit is where you get the money from. The Shark Tank for the for-profit might be from investors or a bank. Whereas the Shark Tank for a nonprofit might be from stakeholders, donors, and grantors. You've got to make sure that the business plan reflects that. But you still have to have the money and you still have to have the people. And the sense of call might be different too. I think if you're working in a for-profit, you may have a vision around some new product or service. In the nonprofit world, your call may be even more deeply embedded. Especially if it's a religious calling. It may be something that's very right-tied or connected to your faith, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how deeply connected it is to your faith. If you don't have the same things that a for-profit needs, your chances of being successful fall. Now, God can always come in and intervene,  but if you're going to do your part in it you need the same things that a for-profit does. Our guest next week will be Jerry White. Jerry's a retired United States Air Force Major General, and a former International President of The Navigators. Earlier in his career, he worked in the startup days of NASA as a professor at the Air Force Academy. [00:27:23] Jerry White: We prayed and told the Air Force, send us anywhere you want. Just give me an engineering job somewhere. And with absolutely no hint from me or any input from anybody that I know, the Air Force sent me to Cape Canaveral in the New American Space Program. Tommy, I didn't even know what it was, and I became a mission controller, got right smack in the middle of all of the new stuff that the Air Force was doing. The manned flights, the Mercurys, the Geminis, Atlas, Titan, Polaris, you name it. And every conceivable kind of rocket. And in that, I got a new glimpse of the future.   Links and Resources JobfitMatters Website Next Gen Nonprofit Leadership with Tommy Thomas 2021 Distinguished Alumni Recipient Caryn Ryan, '79 Missonwell Website   Connect Tommy Thomas - tthomas@jobfitmatters.com Tommy's LinkedIn Profile Caryn Ryan's LinkedIn Profile  

The third Rainbow Crystal target is revealed, but who will end up with it this week? Mercury's Mental Match brings out differeing opinions between the hosts this week. Was this episode one that stood out to you? A lot of personal connections were made this week, and we did our best to spin what was a rather lack-luster Sailor Says into a discussion you can sink your teeth into. Sailor Moon Another Story The Series AUDITIONShttps://tinyurl.com/2p93sd4aCasting is still open! Audition today.Title (English): Mercury's Mental MatchTitle (Japanese): Crushing on Ami: The Boy Who Can See the FutureOriginal Air Date (NA): September 29th, 1995Original Air Date (Japan): October 10th, 1992Official Websitewww.MoonStarPod.comPresented by Vintage Anime Videowww.VintageAnimeVideo.comMoon Star: A Sailor Moon Podcast - Facebook & InstagramChris Mayek - On Youtube & InstagramAlex Summers - AlexSummersSFE on Instagram, Twitter, & TikTokVintageAnimeVideo - On Youtube

Our astrology this week is about Venus entering Gemini. She is going to bring love, income, beauty, oand pleasure to our thoughts and conversations, she is going to be more diplomatic or two-faced, wishy washy or adept at juggling diverent opportunities, and whilel she traverses Mercurys sign she does so while Mercury travels hers, in Taurus, making them mutually receptive for a while, here we go! Tune in with Zoe Moon to hear how it may impact your sign.

The Primrose Chronicles drops the flag, peels out and squeals tires in this second episode of Season Two. The cars that graced the Young Family driveways had their own stories, some of which will find their way into the audio tales that comprise this installment & the next. Cadillacs, Mercurys & Plymouths, Oh my!!Welcome back. And be sure to check out pics accompanying this Episode on The Primrose Chronicles Facebook pageBlessings!!

Should you be worried about Mercurys retrograde? Is your sun sign affecting your choices? What do you really need to know about astrology? All the questions you have about Feng Shui and astrogloy are answered as you learn how to use astrology to shape your life instead of using it as a excuse for behaviors. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:The depth of astrology and how does it worksWhat are your power positions? How to create power positions in your homeWhy your sun signs don't define your behaviorsWhere to direct your focus about retrogradesWorking with Mercury RetrogradeTarot readings are just a tool The ongoing process of Feng ShuiEpisode References/Links:Kate Wind WebsiteMom & Me Astrology PodcastGuest Bio:Born and raised in Las Vegas, Kate had an unusual upbringing. In her parent's search for a strong educational foundation in Las Vegas, the City of Sin, she was enrolled in Catholic School. While the education was superb, Kate was not a perfect fit for the school. She related better to the unconventional side of thinking, and eventually found her niche as the unofficial “counselor” of her class. After graduating from UNLV with a BA in psychology, she trekked into the corporate world of hotel spas and chased the money and title of success. At the top of her career, she started relating back to the cycles of astrology and her lifetime goal of helping others one-on-one. Kate uses her expertise in astrology, Tarot, and Feng Shui to provide insightful and powerful consultations. She is professional and provides guidance in a comfortable atmosphere. Kate has had the honor of reading and partnering with some of Las Vegas' most notable hotels such as The Cosmopolitan, The Palms, The Wynn, and MGM Skylofts, and brand names such as American Eagle, Michael Kors, Dior and Porsche. ​In addition to her one-on-one astrology and Feng Shui clients, Kate reads the Tarot for events, conferences, and parties. She can be found in several magazines, such as The Vegas Voice and Live Love Spa giving us insight on Feng Shui and upcoming astrology predictions.Her latest accomplishments have been the creation and implementation of the Mom & Me Astrology Podcast and Mom & Me Astrology Academy, both aimed at teaching and sharing stories related to Astrology and Feng Shui.If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyUse this link to get your Toe Sox!ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan  All right, where my astrology loving peeps at. This one's for you. And if you're like, "Ah I don't know." If you hear that someone's an astrologer or does tarot readings or just Feng Shui you like want to walk away, I really do, please do me the massive favor of just listening to this because we actually go in with, with a much more explanatory way of how do these things affect your life. So not scary predictions, but just like an information that you can take action and I'm all about arming you with the tools to be it till you see it. So I wanted to bring up my friend Kate Wind, she also has a podcast, you'll hear about it towards the end, and have her explain how your signs can assist you in knowing what steps to take next, and how to how to go through some things. And we also talked about the energy of your home. And my loves being it till you see it is not just about like consuming information and taking action, and then going home. Your home is such an important space for being it till you see it. And so she goes into great detail more than I've ever known about Feng Shui. And so I'm really excited for you to hear all this and be armed with some information. And I really do hope that you take that and her BE IT action steps and use them and then let us know how you use them. And then if you're at all intrigued, you know, contact her find find someone like her because you you're going to want this information in your life about who you are and what was going on when you were born to help you navigate what's going on next in your world. All right, so here's Kate Wind. Let's get going. I am like giddy for you to hear all this information because it's a lot of fun for me.Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.All right, Be It babes. I'm really excited because I can, I know we met in person somewhere. And then we actually hung out. Oh, we met at a roller skating event. And then we hung out. Just two... just the four of us, actually, your partner, my husband and I. And I really just think that you're the coolest woman. So y'all, I'm bringing on Kate Wind that's who we have as a guest today because, well, I think we've all had questions about astrology and Feng Shui. And sometimes we say things like, "Damn mercury and retrograde." And like, "Does that, what does that mean?" And it's everything retrograde and mercury's fault. Like, maybe we're just blaming the wrong, the wrong planet, right. So I wanted to bring on Kate because I think in being it till you see it, there are some things you can dabble in, in the astrology world, in the Feng Shui world, and I know you're like, "Lesley's is gonna get woowoo." It's gonna be a one woo but it's going to be a hard woo. And I think I think Kate is going to just enlighten us in some ways that are going to make us go, "Oh, maybe I should be looking into astrology or Feng Shui. So Kate, can you tell everyone who you are? And how you got to do what you're doing?Kate Wind  Absolutely. So first, thank you so much for having me on today. Second, I love that. It's not gonna be woowoo just one big woo. But I appreciate you saying that because I'm an astrologer and Feng Shui consultant. And I love to bring these tools to people in a very digestible manner. So often, when you start talking about these things, people, they have two reactions when they meet me. One is, "Oh, my gosh, I love everything that you do." Or the second one, they kind of almost back away, right? Or they just don't even respond to what I said I do. So how I got into it is I'm a second generation Astrologer and Tarot reader and Fung Shui consultant. And I was raised with the language. But it wasn't until five years ago, that I had an aha moment. And I decided I'm in the wrong industry. I can't continue doing the corporate grind, like I've been doing, and I need to launch my own business.Lesley Logan  So that's interesting, because you're second generation, I think a lot of people can resonate with maybe resisting a journey that they (Kate: Yeah) were pretty much born for, like you, you said it, you were like, you know, the language. Your parents, were speaking this all around you all the time. It was just kind of like how you grew up. Some kids grow up with their parents going to work nine to five, and you grew up with your parents reading Tarot cards.Kate Wind  Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. And that is a great point. And I don't think at the time that I knew that I was going against it. But I also thought I want to prove to myself that I can go out there and do something on my own. So I went to UNLV. I got my bachelor's degree in Psychology. I knew I wanted to help people. And that ended me up in the spa industry. Right? I was a spa director for 12 something years, and that definitely is a form of helping people. It's the the, you know, the therapy that happens to the body, the massages as the facials, but that wake up call. It was so intense. I was saying I need to help people on a deeper level. And I think too, when we talked about that, woo, when it comes to astrology, and Feng Shui like these are, these are tools that we can use that are just as good as therapy.Lesley Logan  Can we talk about how they're tools? Because I think (Kate: Yeah) that's where people are, you said it, some people are like, "Oh my God, I love that. I like I (Kate: Yeah) have all the decks. Here's the decks that I have." And they're like, (Kate: Yeah) and then other people are like, "Hmm, um okay. I'm gonna just step over. Why ..." (Kate: Absolutely) So can we talk about what what these tools are just on a basic level? And then maybe we can find out like, why do people want to like step away? Do they think you're a witch?Kate Wind  Yeah, sometimes, sometimes, unfortunately. So you know with the astrology, in order to be able to write a horoscope column in the back of shape or vanity, we had to boil astrology down to the 12 signs, which our sun signs. Right? Just like me, and you would say, okay, we're an Aquarius, or someone else's Pisces. And sometimes that's hard to believe. How can we put all of people into 12 simple categories, and that sounds very unrealistic. And it's not to bash on sun sign, astrology, it has its place. But I don't think a lot of people understand the depth of astrology. And that as an astrologer, I'm looking at all of your planets. I'm looking at what signs all of the planets sitting in your chart. I'm looking at what houses they sit in. I'm looking at the aspects that they make to each other, how they communicate to each other. And I start telling you things about you based on your chart that some people sit back and say, "I've been in therapy for two years, and I haven't received this type of validation." Right? They say they feel seen. They say, "Oh, you've put into words how I felt my entire life."Lesley Logan  Okay, this is brilliant, because this is why, this is why I want to bring you on, because I think in being it until we see it, we have to accept ourselves. And I think sometimes we think there's something wrong with us. But (Kate: Yeah) actually what that thing is that everyone is going, why do they do it like that? That's a little your uniqueness. It's (Kate: Yeah) based on your birth chart, which is more than your sun sign. And it's like, if you kind of went in with that uniqueness, it probably would take you to where you want to go.Kate Wind  Yes. And so many people think astrology or tarot, for example, like, "Oh, I don't want you to tell me when I'm going to die." Okay, that's not what I'm doing. (Lesley and Kate laughs) I'm not doing that. Lesley Logan  Maybe that's why they're scared and walking away. They're like, "Oh, my God, she knows the end."Kate Wind  Yes. Or they think I'm going to tell them something horrible. And like I and I understand, readers have gotten a bad rap. Because clearly there are readers out there that like to talk about bad news. Right? You have to find just like a therapist, you have to find a reader that you feel comfortable with, that you resonate with their language. And I can guarantee you I do not talk about I don't talk about death, I don't talk about and if we talk about things that maybe aren't as fun to talk about. Right? I give you very practical examples of how I've seen clients live through it. So you're not getting off the phone saying, "I'm afraid to leave my house today." (Lesley: Right). That's not what it's about. That'd be a complete disservice, I think and very unethical as well you know to do.Lesley Logan  Yeah. Yeah, I think that is I think that is thank you for pointing that out. And I it's like anything, you know, because as a Pilates instructor, people like, "Oh, I tried that once. That didn't work for me." It's like, well, you probably just had the wrong teacher for you, or you picked the wrong type of Pilates. Like there's so many, there's not just one way of anything, anywhere. (Kate: Correct) So, so there's that. So as a great tool for really figuring ourselves out, which I think is cool, and really helping us navigate steps we should take. That's kind of like what you do on that side. So Feng Shui, how is that a tool that people can use?Kate Wind  Okay, so for the Feng Shui, a lot of times people say, "Oh, yeah, I have a red door, or oh, my bed faces a certain direction." Right. Don't get me wrong, those are great. But Feng Shui is so much more than that. Okay? And if you've ever created a vision board, right, where you cut out the little magazine pieces, and you put it on some construction paper, that's telling me that you believe in the power of seeing something putting it on your wall, seening it every day, and that it's going to manifest. So how would we not operate if we believe in that, that our home is an extension of our energy? And what we put on our walls, through artwork, through color, through placement, is asking the universe for more of those things.Lesley Logan  Cool. So that's like, that's like, there's your your putting things in place around your home is not as visual evidence, but also things that could open up what is to come what you want to come in what you want to bring into your life. So you could be (Kate: Yes) you could be putting things in your house in a way that is like blocking the things you want versus like just making some changes. It's not just the red door.Kate Wind  Yes. And I can give some great examples, because storytelling sometimes is the most fun. But even if you're listening, you're thinking, "Oh, I've never created a vision board because I don't I don't believe in that." I want to give one other example. Okay, (Lesley: Yeah) if you've ever been on a diet, and so you say, "You know what, okay, starting Monday, I'm starting my diet." So over the weekend, you go through your pantry, you throw out all the candies, you hide the flour, whatever it is, you stock the fridge with fruits and vegetables, waters, whatever, you're changing your environment in order to get a result. And I think that's really what Feng Shui comes down too. We can sometimes become overwhelmed within ourselves, how do I make a change? Okay, well change your environment. Sometimes it's not just the mindset. So I know I've read a very cute story about you. Where you manifested Brad? (Lesley: Yeah) Right. With the two coffee cups. (Lesley: Yeah) Okay, so often I'm in someone's home and they have one reclining chair in the living room. So if anyone was to come over, where would they sit? Are men in people's homes where they only make one side of the bed? They only have one pillow, one nightstand. Okay, well, where would this other person belong in your life? To me, you're telling the universe I like one person sleeping in this bed because it's not even made for two. (Lesley: Yeah, yeah.) Examples like that is what I consider the power of working with your home to create the reality.Lesley Logan  So I love this because even for people who are trying to make room for something in their in goals, like in their business where they want to have a new job or bring something in, if you don't have create if you don't create space in your calendar. (Kate: Yeah) You're not going to be able to bring in that new side hustle that thing that you want to do next. So you it's like we think of Feng Shui as like, these particular things like I, when I think of Feng Shui, I never will forget my mom getting my first apartment. She's like, "Your toilet is in your relationships corner."Kate Wind  Yeah, yeah. That's very real.Lesley Logan  She's like, "But it's okay because we put this thing over here. This is gonna do." (Kate: Yeah) But it's also it's also just like setting yourself up, setting things up to bring in what you want more of and looking around to see what things are you actually not welcoming in by putting on like, I will, I will remember when I first got my own place after I was homeless and single. I had wanted to create as much room as possible in my studio apartment, of course. So I pushed the bed up against the corner. (Kate: Okay) So guess what, y'all let me tell you that lasted two weeks because the moment someone has stayed a night. I was like, "How do we get out of bed to go to bathroom?" Like what ... (Kate and Lesley laughs) What is happening here?Kate Wind  Yeah. Yeah. Well, so I mean, so many things I want to say to that, yes, beds in the corners, like that reminds me of like a child's room, or even a prison cell. And that's the thing is during a consultation with the client, I'm not going to come in and accuse them of those things. But I'm gonna say, "What's happened since you put your bed in the corner?" Or "What do you think would happen if we move the bed out of the corner and put you in the power position?" Right. So it's simple things like that. And I do not want to discredit the bagua of course, the different elements. I do all that as well. Sometimes that's not as fun storytelling, though, when we're talking about what I'm doing. Right. And ...Lesley Logan  Brad's gonna want to know what a bagua is. He's definitely ... aware that what a ...Kate Wind  Yes, so it's like a floor plan that we put over the home, based on the front door of the home. And there's different corners. So there's a corner and everyone's home from money, for relationships, for your fame and reputation, for your cash flow, for your helpful people. And again, it's all based off of the front door. But I wanted to tell a quick story about you had mentioned about the business because we gave a lot of examples about relationships. And maybe people are listening and saying, "I have a relationship. Those don't apply to me." Right? (Lesley: Yeah) But I was working with a client who she was self employed, and she catered almost exclusively to women. And in her financial corner, she had an image of a woman's back. Okay, and it was beautiful. It was but it was an outline, but it's clearly the back of a woman. And I said, "Do you feel like women have been turning their back on you?" In the financial corner, right? We have a woman turning away, and giving just the back side. And she said, "I've loved this painting since I was little I've had this for years." I said, "What if we just do an experiment and take it down for two weeks? Put it in your garage, put it somewhere to take it down." She said, "Okay, I'll do that." Within a couple of days, right? She was texting me. She's like, "I just sold three of my highest level classes. I can't believe this." Right. But we buy artwork, because we're attracted to it. Right? Maybe she was going through a divorce. And she was like, "I feel connected with that solo woman in that image." But as well as Americans, right, we buy things and we put in our home and we kind of stay like, "You're gonna stay there until I move." Right?Lesley Logan  Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, it's actually really funny is when I like to clean up the house, every beginning of every year like to move things around. I like I was we're currently sitting here I redid this table, mostly for a photo shoot, but now I'm like, well, I'm gonna keep it because this is like, all of my crystals are here these things right. And we redesigned the living room. I always like the live room was like, I don't know, I don't know, if I, I don't know what we put, you know, we moved in, we put everything in there. And for the so funny for a photoshoot, I was like, well, this living room is not on brand with the photos we have to do. So we just bought this rug randomly. And I just put it in the podcast room because I hate the carpet. And when I come out to get ready for the shoot, they took the carpet that I put in the podcast room and they moved it over the couch. And then we rolled the rug up and put on different rugs from the other rooms. And I was like, "Oh, well the living room is staying like this every year." (Kate: Yeah. Okay.) Because it feels so spacious. It feels so rich. It feels like warm and like you want to sit in it. And and so like, I think, you know, I used it my mom's will listen to this and she would change the house in the middle of night and with her Feng Shui and all the things. (Kate: Yeah) And my dad did flip over a couch because the couch moved. (Kate: Okay) Walking in the dark. (Kate: I get it.) But I think it's important to move things around. It's in my writing like we're moving the energy around so if you're like wanting to change things up in your life, like moving things around in your house can help do that.Kate Wind  Yeah, and that's a very simple example too. Like, think of a desk that's been sitting in the carpet for so long and it think how hard it is to move it that initial inch because it's really dug its its weight if you will into the carpet or it leaves those little marks. And so it's even a very, very simple exercise where might say take something that's been in your house that's been sitting there for a long time and shift it by two inches. Because some people are resistant to change. I love that you're saying I'm moving myself around. I love to move my stuff around too. But some people do not like that. And so if you're listening saying that sounds great, but I'm, I'm not on board for that. (Lesley: Yeah) Try just shifting your stuff by a few inches in while you're doing it set the intention of unsticking yourself in whatever situation that might be in your relationship, in a job that you don't like and a friendship that isn't a two way street anymore. Whatever it is.Lesley Logan  This is so cool. That's so what a great like little action step you could take. It's just like just and have the and have the intention around what you're trying to unstick with that. Cool. Okay. So I love that. Probably come back to this but I wanted to, for for the people who are with the tarot cards and with the astrology. I'm wondering, are there certain signs? And this is maybe like a broad question, but like, are there certain signs that like it's easier for them to show up more confidently to to take action? Or is every sign capable of doing that? It's just that them recognizing their strengths and powers.Kate Wind  I operate under the idea that your sun sign is not doing you a disservice. However, yes, people like fire signs, for example, right? We would think oh, Aries, Leo, Sagittarius might show up more confidently. But if you're a Le... an Aries sun, and you have Venus, the planet of love and beauty and softness, right sitting on your sun, it's going to take away some of that power, it's going to soften some of that fire even. So I don't think that there is a way to just say, oh, you know, boil it down to those 12 signs.Lesley Logan  Right. It's like, because you'll hear things like, oh, there have been more presidents who have an Aquarius sign than anything else. And I'm like, well, that's amazing. (Kate: I know, I know.) But it's also kind of hilarious, because it's just like, there's so much more than just your sun sign. And also, I love that you pointed out that it's not here to do a disservice to you. And I think that's really cool. Because I, I often hear well, I, it has to be like this, because I'm a Virgo, or whatever. And ...Kate Wind  I know people like to blame their astrology sign for their behavior. And sometimes it's just funny. And I can totally appreciate the humor for that. But sometimes I think people are serious that they think that they have to be a certain way because of their sign.Lesley Logan  And that's not that they have a control around that they are something they can do.Kate Wind  Yeah. Especially if you're just basing off of that sun sign.Lesley Logan  So what are their, what other parts of the signs should people be paying attention to? They should they all do their birth chart? And like, what would that reveal and that your birth? Your chart doesn't change over time, right? You would look at it at different times in your life, but it stays the same.Kate Wind  Correct. So there's two different ways in astrology one, you could have a natal birth chart reading. So we would just look at where the planets were when you were born. And those don't change, right, we can't go back and change what the planets look like in 1985. So that gives insight into lifelong themes. I think people have become a little bit more familiar with their big three, so their son, their moon and their rising sign, and that absolutely starts coloring, you know the picture. But I think having a natal birth, birth chart reading, you understand the degrees, you understand what the degrees mean, you understand the aspects. And again, that can give you insight into those lifelong themes. And sometimes people we... you know, we question ourselves, we think, oh, you know, I'm different or I'm weird. And leaning into it and hearing someone validate. No, that's in your chart. That's how you're supposed to be acting. That's how you react to things. That is what you're good at. Those are situations that you will continue and continue and continue to come up against in your life. It's like, oh, my God, so much like validity that you're getting from someone.Lesley Logan  Yeah. This is so this is so interesting, because there's like I said, sun rising and moon. And I think, like, I lived in LA for 14 years. And I and it's I say it as a joke, but actually, I've heard other podcasters that I listened to who live in LA like, when you come to LA they just immediately give you a drop of understanding astrology in a very ... (Kate: Yes, yes.) Well, you just pick up on it. (Kate: Yeah.) So I was like, so I know the sun and the rising I did not actually know about the moon. So so that's interesting. So you had the you have the natal chart and then there's what is the other chart then?Kate Wind  So then I want to be more predictive. So we're base... we're basing it off of your natal chart where were those planets when you were born? But now we're saying where are the planets right now as we're speaking and how do they aspect that planets when you're born? (Lesley: Oh.) So we might say oh, Saturn is approaching your sun, that happens for all of us every seven years or so not at the exact time because it's going to depend on where Saturn was and where the sun was when you were born. And then we can talk about linking years. So I can say, "Okay, you're about to go through this energy. But before we talk about this energy, tell me what was going on in 1993." Right, and I'll have the client go down kind of memory lane, those are great examples. You're going to be going through that energy again. Now, maybe there's 28 years difference between that time, so it's not gonna happen the exact same way. But there's comfortability. And knowing I've been here before, I survived it. Nothing horrible happened. Right. And now here we are going through it again.Lesley Logan  That is actually really cool stuff. Because instead of you go thinking like something new is happening to you, you actually can go, you can actually have this confidence. Like, "Oh, I have the data, I survived that." (Kate: Right. Exactly.) I'm also much older (Kate: Yeah) and I've experienced it so I can bring that with me. And you don't have to make it, it doesn't have to feel so foreign or unknown.Kate Wind  Yes, exactly. And there will be energies where I will say, this is once in a lifetime energy, or you have never been through this or, you know, some people will never go through this in their life. I do prefernce those things, right to walk through it. But I love to take notes from my clients. So I have great stories of how people have lived it out. Of course, I'm never divulging people's names, right. It's all very confidential, but I'll just say I've seen clients, this has happened to them, or that has happened to them. So these are some examples of how you might see it play out in your life.Lesley Logan  So here's what's so amazing is that and this is why I'm glad it's it was a one woo because it really is because in some ways, you're like a therapist. You're just using a different science, then the psychology or you know, there's like a couple others out there. You're you're you're using a historical form of like, predictions, like a different word, that word I don't want to use, but like you're looking at things and you're going okay, here's how other people have done it. Here's how we've done it, we could take this data, and then you based on here's your strengths, and here's what you were, here's what you were born with, can go and navigate it. It's really, like supportive. And I think I remember growing up and people like reading their, "Oh, my astrology said, I'm an ... blah, blah, blah. This week, it was like something bad."Kate Wind  I know. I know. I read them sometimes. And I'm like, "Oh, my goodness."Lesley Logan  Okay, so then let's talk about ... so you mentioned that there's some things that I could be going through based on when I was born, and that time happening, and like you wouldn't like the seven year thing. (Kate: Sure.) But then there's the thing that like literally makes the news and Mercury's in retrograde, like it makes the news and everyone's afraid of like, (Kate: Yeah, I know.) fax machine, I can't believe anyone has a fax machine still. Reason it's not working. So that shouldn't be but like, what, what is that and what should people like? How should people approach that? But so it's not like, "Ah this was the worst several weeks of my life."Kate Wind  Yes. Okay. It's so funny because all of the planets retrograde. (Lesley: Right.) Pluto retrograde, Saturn retrogrades, Jupiter, you name it, they all retrograde. I don't know why Mercury has taken the hit for all the planets retrograding it's like the redheaded stepchild of the planets or something I don't know, right? It's it, it gets a lot of heat for for it. And there's some validity in it for sure. But Mercury retrogrades is two to three times a year. So we are so familiar with that. Think if you take your age times two or three, that's how many times you've dealt with Mercury retrograde in your life. That's pretty crazy. I would say something kind of interesting, though. If you've seen your birth chart, most of them will make a note of what planets were in retrograde status when you were born. And some people that were born with under a Mercury retrograde which could be rather common because it retrogrades two to three times a year. Sometimes clients say they feel more compatible when Mercury is in retrograde status, because that's what they were born under. That's what they know. (Lesley: Yeah.) That's what was built into their chart.Lesley Logan  Oh, that makes so much sense to me. Because like, I remember being in a yoga class and it was after it was like a totally rainy stormy night the night before and he was like how many of you didn't sleep well, because the rain and I looked around I was like, oh my God, like slept like a baby. (Kate: Right. Yeah.) Like bring on this storm. (Kate: Yeah, absolutely.) Okay, that that makes a lot of sense. And yes, it doesn't get out. I have to, I have a funny Mercury story. So my engagement ring. When Brad called my jewelry designer app to say, "Hey, I want to propose to Lesley." She's like, "Oh, don't worry, give me five weeks." (Kate: Okay) And he goes, "Okay. Like that's you don't need any ..." He's like she was like, "I already know. I got the size and what she wants, like, just give me five weeks." (Kate: Oh my God.) So he calls her five weeks later and he goes, "Hey, I haven't heard from you like, how's everything going?" She's like, "It's not right. I don't like it. I shouldn't have started during retrograde. I'm gonna do another one." (Kate: Okay. Yeah.) I saw that one. And it's true, if not the one for me.Kate Wind  Yeah. Well and so there's a positive to Mercury retrograde, right. We want to blame it on everything, but because it's in retrograde, R E, right? I say it, it really supports doing anything that begins with R E, rethink, reconsider, redesign, reorganize, relaunch, like, if we can work with the energy, then it will be more supportive. (Lesley: Okay, that's cool.) Right. So I understand what the ring thing that probably was a setback. You know, Brad could have been kind of disappointed. Well, oh, I had reservations for this time or whatever, based on this five week thing. But you're jewel... jewelers. Wow. Is this that called? (Lesley: Jeweler) Jeweler. Your jeweler was probably like, "I'm going to redesign it." And I'm hoping that she was more satisfied with the end result.Lesley Logan  Oh, yeah. I'm a 72. Kate Wind  Yeah, okay. Right, but reworking it, redesigning it. And that's a way to be more compatible with the energy.Lesley Logan  Okay, that I think that's really cool, because I think it is more actionable that way. (Kate: Yeah) So instead of going, oh, you know, I've my friend and I would go for a run. He's like, "Retrograde starting right now. And I've got this thing going on and da da da." And it's like, if I had known that I could, there could be like, "Oh, during this time, instead of doing these things, I'm gonna focus my energy more around this." (Kate: Absolutely) And that, I mean, for those people who listen to the show that they love, an action that they can take, and, and I always say like action is the antidote to fear, right? It brings clarity. And so if you can take action instead of like, going, "Oh, just wait for this to stop messing with my email and my computer." And ...Kate Wind  Yeah, yeah. Well, if especially yeah, when you hear the next retrogrades coming. If you've been thinking about redesigning your website, to rework your menus, save it, save it for Mercury retrograde, because that's the time that you should be rethinking.Lesley Logan  Okay, are there any other times in the year that we should be thinking about other stuff? Is there a different retrograde that we're thinking of the wrong way?Kate Wind  Um, oh my gosh, well, so because I had mentioned all planets retrograde. Oh, my gosh, that's such a loaded question I'm trying to think where I want to go with that. (Lesley and Kate laughs) Um, you know what, I might switch it a little bit on you. But I might suggest that we should be watching right now. Pluto. (Lesley: Okay) Okay, Pluto just went direct here, August 8, I'm sorry October 8. So here, just a couple you know, pretty recently, and Pluto also retrogrades every year, not a lot of people talk about Pluto retrograde. But the reason why it's very significant right now is because since it's moving direct, that means that it's headed straight for the sign of Aquarius. Now, we haven't seen Pluto change signs since 2008. So we'll walk through a little exercise here. Pluto moved into Capricorn in 2008. Pluto can be rather disruptive. We're talking very different from Mercury at this point, right? (Lesley: Okay) So those the before and after. It's the scene, kind of the guts of the situation. Its power, its its money. And it moved into Capricorn, which rules are structural systems of our society. So our government, our laws, or rules. So we go back to 2008 when Pluto moved into Capricorn, of course, most people already know what I'm about to say. But right, we saw the recession, we saw the housing crisis, we saw a disruption in a lot of the policies and procedures that we thought were safe, or sound that are they'll always be there. This is how it will always be. And now as we're speaking, we're seeing the book end to Pluto and Capricorn. And I talk to clients about this as well, when they go through long cycles. Okay, what happened when this energy moved in, in this year? Oh, we're in the book end here. And oh, my gosh, people have such aha moments. Oh, my gosh, are you kidding me? It's like the exact same storyline. Right? How are we doing this? 30 years later?Lesley Logan  Yeah. This is so okay. That's interesting. So then as it's from the book end. (Kate: Yeah) And it's about to switch signs. (Kate: Correct) Is this going to be a good thing? Like, do we want it to get out of it? Or is or is Aquarius going to like set it all on fire?Kate Wind  I know. I'm excited for it to move into Aquarius. Again, I love Aquarian energy. I am an Aquarius sun, right. (Lesley: Yeah) I love Aquarius too. Yes. Aquarius is for the people. You know, I do think we are seeing a shift. Right. That there I do think yes, people are getting more rich. I understand, I'm not taking that away. But we have platforms now where we can communicate as normal, just everyday working people. We have a larger voice because of platforms because of TikTok because of different things where we can get together and kind of rally together or share our insight quicker than we've ever been able to do it before. So I do think that Aquarius will accentuate that. And we will see some of the power being taken away from a lot of the stuff that was created since 2008.Lesley Logan  Okay, well, that's cool. (Kate: Yeah) I think that's can be. I think there's, there's good sides to that. And this is like, so here's what's so funny is like, you can use astrology for your own personal stuff. And then you can look at it as like a global energy of what's happening. And doesn't that tie us all so much more together that like, we're not just like individual people like running around, not knowing what to do like the whole ... We're all going through this together with our own stuff.Kate Wind  Correct. Yes. That was like, even when the pandemic went off, we had Pluto and Saturn meeting up for the first time in the sign of Capricorn, you know, and astrologers were saying, like, something big is gonna happen in 2020, like, something's big is gonna happen when these come together. Well, of course, I was concerned about what's going to happen on a worldly level, but also, I was looking at people's charts. Okay, where is it happening in the person's chart. And, you know, everyone was affected differently, by what we've been through the past two years, some people made a lot of money off of it. Some people it hit really hard. Well, because that conjunction that we were all dealing with on a much lev... much larger level was also personally affecting each of the birth charts based on where those planets were when you were born. And that's how you can take a very wide conjunction or like, not conjunction, but like, you know, a wide theme, and then say, well, how did some people benefit and some people didn't. Some people came out ahead, and some people went into depression.Lesley Logan  Yeah. So this is interesting, because it is true, like, I will look back at like, you know, how Brad night shift in the last couple of years. And then you can look at another situation with someone and that was not what happened. And it can be easy to feel a little bit guilty, like, you know, and I'm not saying I don't feel guilty at all, but like, it is interesting to see, like, some of that stuff is out of everyone's control. Some of that was just like the, when they say that's how the stars aligned. It's really how the stars aligned. (Kate: Truly, truly.) And I also, I think it's has to be very interesting for you to be able to see that something is coming, but not have the details of all the things just know that like, you're, you're like something big is about to happen, and you're kind of just waiting to see what that thing is. How do you wait?Kate Wind  I know. I know. Honestly, that is the hard part. Because I mean, I am a human as well. Right? Like, I have money in the stock market like all those normal things. Right? That will affect me as well. So yeah, the waiting part is, is kind of hard for sure. (Lesley: Yeah) But like even like the Pluto moving into Aquarius, like, you know, sometimes when we're in it, it's not as easy to see, you know, and we the last time we saw Pluto move into Aquarius was like the US was one or two years old. (Lesley: Wow) So it's like I could read history books about what was going on during that time. But we've (Lesley: Yeah) had so much technology happen, we, you know, we've evolved so much that it can't be the exact same storyline, but I'm sure that there will be a lot of similarities between what happened.Lesley Logan  So here's what's really interesting in that there's a common theme where there's something coming up, and then you look back at the history of that thing, whether is from the stars and the signs moving based on the worldly events. But also you said, with our own thing, we can look back, okay, what what has happened to you in 2008? How is that so it's gonna be similar energy. (Kate: Yes) And when we do those things, it gives us a data that shows us science, and we can have more confidence and move into those next things. And so I think, when I ask you like, how do you wait? It sounds like, you wait, but you also are still taking action, you're still living life. And like, in being it until we see it, it's not about like waiting until we become the thing. It's like, getting the information that we can glean from something. (Kate: Yes) And then taking action with that information.Kate Wind  Yeah. And I will give clients like positive ways of living out the energies. Or I'll say, "Hey, be proactive about it. I'm telling you these things." For example, like there's an energy I talked about where I'm saying you might be overly concerned about fire safety. Now, this is a very weird example. I don't talk about this often, right? But I'm telling a client that well, I would hope that they would be proactive and say, "Maybe I should check the smoke alarms in my house. Maybe I should see what the expiration date is on my fire extinguisher. Maybe I'm going to fix the fireplace that hasn't worked in six months." Those are great. So now you've heard this information. Now you can take proactive steps instead of sitting around saying, "Oh, no is my house gonna catch on fire?" (Lesley: Yes) Right.Lesley Logan  Yes. Yeah. Well, I mean, this is all so great. Okay. So really quick, because I feel like we didn't even touch like we didn't really make it (Kate: I know.) back on the surface of any of these things. (Kate: I know.) But for people who are like, "Okay, what do what, what do I need to do? Do I need to go do my natal chart? Do I need a Tarot reading?" When would it, can be really quick, like, how often should you be getting a Tarot reading? (Kate: Yeah, absolutely.) How would you get that one.Kate Wind  Yeah, so I think every three to six months is a healthy kind of schedule to be on. I see clients more often than that and I see clients less often than that. So, but I do think that it is just a tool, just like seeing a therapist, right. At some point, that therapist is going to say, how do you feel about this? Like, what do you think? Like I, we can't use it as a crutch. So I don't think you know, every couple of weeks, sometimes it can become a little overkill, right? Where I have to say, let's put some responsibility on ourselves as well. Not just these tools. (Lesley: Yeah) So every three to six months, I think is healthy. If you've never had an astrology chart, I would start with a natal birth chart reading. And even if you are a little verse already in astrology, like I said, everyone talk speaks a little bit differently. Everyone has different language that they bring to the table. So you know, if you're looking to get a six to 12 month outlook, what energies do I have coming in the next six to 12 months, then we can work with more of the predictive side of the chart.Lesley Logan  That's cool. So if you're, if you're getting ready to maybe switch careers, and you have a goal that perhaps in the next six to 12 months, you could do a more predictive charts, you can kind of balance out the energies and really kind of know what to expect. (Kate: Yes) That's so cool. (Kate: Yeah) I love it. I think it's amazing. With Feng Shui (Kate: Yeah) is that something that is ongoing? Is it something you can like well, I mean, this sounds redundant, because we've talked about earlier, you do, you do it, you do it one time. And that's it. Are you kind of re Feng Shui everyone's well. Correct.Kate Wind  Yeah, I know, because I've had people say,oh I've had a Feng Shui console before. Okay, that's like saying, if you've had a haircut before, it is an ongoing process, right? Because we're always changing. And our house is always changing, whether we're moving a new animal in, or we're our, we bought a bunch of new clothes that were on sale, and now our closets packed, or something breaks. And so we're not using it, the homes constantly changing. So that's what I love about the consults that I offer that I teach you things, I don't just say, move this here, do this, do that. I want you to understand why we're doing it. I want to make sure that you relate to what I think the artwork or the position of the furniture is doing or manifesting in your life. And so I leave you with those tools to then take a more discriminative look at your house to say what is my house saying. And that gets really wild, right is where you have a financial breakthrough. And then something is happening in your financial corner in your home, where, where a tree branch breaks off of a big tree, within 24 hours of you having some sort of, you know, financial breakthrough. It's, it's so weird, right? And I have hundreds of stories about how either the home speaks and then something happens in our life or something happens in our life, and then the home has to react.Lesley Logan  That this is so so this I think more people have experienced in something like that without even knowing it. Because they'll, you know, like my, my girlfriend, she she texts me this morning. She's like, she's like, "Well, something was going on because I I've never done this by spilt coffee all over my desk, and in trying to clean it up. I fell down the stairs." And like, (Kate: Oh my gosh. Yeah.) she's okay, she's fine. (Kate: Okay.) I feel like I had some sort of karmic breakthrough. Something just happened. But like, it's, I think it's very fascinating because we could, you know, the tree could fall and go, that's really sad for them. But then if they was in their financial corner, they had a windfall of some kind like wasn't that bad.Kate Wind  Exactly, exactly. Yes. The home speaks to us, as well understanding the bagua. Or even just taking a more again, like look at your life. Okay, what kind of breakthrough did I have? Especially if there's something that broke in the house? Or you bring something nicer into the home? Okay, and now I now I have a change in my life. It's all it's all related.Lesley Logan  Yeah. Oh, my goodness, I want to talk to you forever. And I just had this like vision of like, I'm gonna have to have you back for like an annual like, update on like, what's, (Kate: Yes, yeah.) something, but (Kate: Sure) we're gonna take a quick break, and then we're gonna let people know where they can work with you, get their natal chart or Feng Shui work done.All right, Kate. So where do people, where do you hang out? Where do people find you? How can they work with you?Kate Wind  Absolutely. So um, I have a website, which is www.thekatewind.com. And then I'm also on Instagram at @the_katewind. And then I also run a podcast with my mom called Mom and Me Astrology.Lesley Logan  Okay, that's so fun. Do you guys just talk about what's happening in the world starts at that time.Kate Wind  Yeah. So we launch a weekly podcast and like, right now we're talking about the eclipse seasons. But, you know, back during the election, we were looking at the potential president's charts. We absolutely talk about, you know what's going on in the world. So we talk about news headlines. Okay, where does this news headline fall into the astrology piece? Again, it's just a great tool if anyone's trying to learn more about astrology, like, how, how does it all connect? But then, of course, many of the episodes, we've run through all 12 of the signs, okay, Mercury's retrograde. How does it affect all the 12 signs Mars retrograde? How's it affecting all 12 of the signs?Lesley Logan  Okay, well, you're going on my downloads right now. (Kate: Okay) Everyone, I just have to say, like, when I was talking with Kate, one of the first time we met, this is something that she and her mom, or you did mention this, like you guys look at different states or countries and their charts, and (Kate: Yes) explains a lot about the energy that's happening over there. And I think, I think that's really cool information to have. So as people interact with those things they can have that they can be armed with that information. So check out her podcast. Okay, before I let you go. (Kate: Yes) BE IT action items, so how can like bold, executable, intrinsic, targeted that people can take to be it till they see it? How would that work with what you've got for us?Kate Wind  Absolutely. I would say take a look at your home. And what is your home saying? I want you to look at the artwork, the pictures that are on your wall? Are they current? Are they updated? Are they sad? Are they scary? I want what is on your walls to look abundant. I don't want them to be little dead, frail trees. If you have an orchid plant that someone gave you for your birthday two years ago, and it doesn't have any more flowers on it. Like I'm giving you permission to throw it away. Anything that's broken in your home, get rid of that energy, because it is all reflective. It all takes a toll on our physical lives. So remove the dead energy. If there's if you're listening, you're thinking, "I don't have any dead energy in in my house." I want you to do this. I want you to go around your house. I want you to take note of where you cuss. What area of your home brings you so much frustration that you're spilling those four letter words. Okay? Maybe that's a rug that you always trip over the corner because it's not taped down. Maybe it's a drawer that you can't open because you have six spatulas in there. Why do we need six spatulas? Right? I want to take notes of those plays. And that's where I want you to start. Because those are creating hiccups in your space that then change your energy. Right? So you just tripped over the rug. And now your husband walks into the room. Who are you shaking that out on? Right. Now, you're in a crappy mood. And husband tries to tell you something right. And you're giving your sourmouth attitude or something. So I, discover where you cuss in your home.Lesley Logan  It such a great ... (Kate: Right) Because it is true. I love that you thought about people like okay, maybe you don't, maybe you don't have any debt plants are really good at giving you those things. Well then where are you cussing. And Claire, I know you're listening. She's been tripping a lot lately. (Kate: Oh no) I think you might want to see where that is happening in your apartment.Kate Wind  Yes. Oh my gosh. Absolutely. There, oh my God. Yeah. That's fascinating. That's fascinating.Lesley Logan  Oh, yeah. Well, thank you for that. I think this is very timely because I always do it on New Years. I always go through all the drawers and all the clothes and all the shoes because I'm like, "I don't want to take this stuff into the next year with me." (Kate: Yeah) So y'all how are you going to use these tips in your life? You want to tag @the_katewind, the @be_it_pod. Let us know. Share with a friend if you are, you're intrigued, if we've piqued your interest, if you're feeling like seen that you're, you are who you are based on like all these important things the planet that makes you contact her and let us know how this affected you. We want to hear about it and until next time, Be It Till You See It.Be It Till You See It is a production of Bloom Podcast Network. Brad Crowell  It's written, produced, filmed and recorded by your host Lesley Logan. And me Brad Crowell. Our associate producer is Amanda Frattarelli. Lesley Logan  Kevin Perez at Disenyo handles all of our audio editing. Brad Crowell  Our theme music is by Ali at APEX Production Music. And our branding by designer and artist, Gianranco Cioffi.  Lesley Logan  Special thanks to our designer Mesh Herico for creating all of our visuals, (which you can't see because this is a podcast) and our digital producer, Jay Pedroso for editing all the video each week, so you can.Brad Crowell  And to Angelina Herico for transcribing each episode, so you can find it on our website. And finally to Meridith Crowell for keeping us all on point and on timeTranscribed by https://otter.aiSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A very crazy week ahead.  Cray-Cray indeed!!  We enter eclipse season on Sunday. The next 6 weeks feature powerful eclipses on the Nodes of Fate as other planets dance and sing wild songs in the heavesn.  Mercurys enters Libra and continues to clear his retrograde shadow.  Pluto turned direct on Saturday October 8, bringing us back to January 5, 2022. When he stations,we have five days of chaos, change and ahha moments this week. Pluto stations are transformative and intense! Any planet at 26 in your chart feels his reverberation.  Sunday October 9, there is a full moon in Aries/Libra taking you back to April 8, 2021. That full moon launches us into eclipse season where we release things and turn towards our fate. There is a huge configuration in the sky that unfolds over the week ~ A finger of god, a hammer of thor, a Mars Neptune square and a grand trine in air.  Watch early Libra for where the heavens are asking you to follow your heart path and encouraging you to partner with the world.   You've got this!!  Listen to your heart!  Head in that direction.  Change your habits to support your next life chapter!! Anne Ortelee, a nationally (NCGR-PAA Level 3, AMAFA, OPA) and internationally (ISAR) certified astrologer, presents her Cosmic Weekly Weather report. Based on the astrology configurations above our heads, Anne discusses the energy we can expect to experience on Planet Earth during the upcoming week. She offers a brief astrology lesson! You can always book a private consultation with Anne to discuss your personal questions and your chart. Follow her on Twitter @anneortelee, instagram @anneortelee, Facebook AstrologerAnneOrtelee. Book a consultation on her website: anneortelee.com Get daily audio and written aspect updates from Patreon/AnneOrtelee for $17 per month!

A quiet week ahead (after the last few weeks of crazy).  Mercurys stations to turn direct October 2, after his retrograde since September 10.  Mercury trines stationing Pluto for the third time.  Pluto turns direct on Saturday October 8, bringing us back to January 5, 2022. Evolution takes place!  Pluto stations are transformative and intense so we feel his station for five days before and after. He's stopped at 26 Capricorn so any planet at 26 in your chart feels him. Sunday October 9, there is a full moon in Aries/Libra taking you back to April 8, 2021.  Vesta stations direct and wants to change your home, office, car or health. Ride with her!    Mercury is the boss of the sky! He's dotting the i's and crossing the t's.  Mars in Gemini is answering to instructions from Mercury. Mars is in Gemini for 8 month until the end of March 25, 2022. Two choices. Two options. Two of everything! Anne Ortelee, a nationally (NCGR-PAA Level 3, AMAFA, OPA) and internationally (ISAR) certified astrologer, presents her Cosmic Weekly Weather report. Based on the astrology configurations above our heads, Anne discusses the energy we can expect to experience on Planet Earth during the upcoming week. She offers a brief astrology lesson! You can always book a private consultation with Anne to discuss your personal questions and your chart. Follow her on Twitter @anneortelee, instagram @anneortelee, Facebook AstrologerAnneOrtelee. Book a consultation on her website: anneortelee.com Get daily audio and written aspect updates from Patreon/AnneOrtelee for $17 per month!

Rockvärldens bästa röst, en fenomenal låtskrivare, en fantastisk scenpersonlighet, en legend i den rätta bemärkelsen. Freddie Mercury lämnade ingen oberörd. Med sin obestridliga talang kombinerat med en total karisma på scenen var han på många sätt ett unikum. Tillsammans med de övriga i Queen skrev han rockhistoria. Hans alltför tidiga död lämnade ingen med en relation till bandet oberörd. Vi berättar här historien om Freddie Mercurys sista år och vad som skedde efter hans tragiska bortgång.

Welcome back for this months Astro Report with Jerel! This months forecast we go over the U.S. Pluto Return, explore Piseces mythology, Mercurys fussiness and more!

Hear what car magazine editors felt about the hottest Mercurys and what made the DeTomaso Mangusta too much of a good thing on this on this episode of The Steve Mags Muscle Car Show Podcast! Now sponsored by High Octane Classics, the Northeast's largest musclecar and supercar dealership!!HIGH OCTAIN CLASSICShttps://www.highoctaneclassics.comSupport the show (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1340482)

Mary Lou Munroe Rey is back with Rated OZ Radio!  Today she's interviewing the legendary Craig Claxton! Craig Claxton is an Australian born Guitarist Singer Songwriter with a career spanning over 50 years. Since 1972 Craig has performed with many Australian bands including Karma, Spellbound, Speakeasy, The Pedestrians, No No No, The Last Shout, The Electric Blue Chameleons, The Atomic Boogie Band, & The Mercurys and his own band over the past several years ‘The Barbarians'. Find him on his website  Running guitar workshops, which have included many legendary guitarists including Robben Ford, Mike Stern, Bob Brozman, Louie Shelton, Phil Emmanuel, Eric Johnson, The Hellecasters, Billy Sheehan, Tony McManus, Kirk Lorange, Jim Kelly, Rex Goh, James Muller, Michael Fix, Flying Burrito Brother John Beland, Tim Gaze and many more. His lifelong love of guitar grew into him opening 'Guitar Brothers' Australia's premier guitar shop in 2006, now a destination for international and local guitarists alike, stocking some of the world's finest new and vintage guitar gear. Check out his shop here  He has played or recorded with artists as diverse as Robben Ford, Mick Hadley, Carol Lloyd, The Purple Hearts, Wendy Saddington, Chris Wilson, Tim Gaze, Barry Sullivan and Barry Harvey(Chain), Kim Durant and Caroline Hammond. Craig appeared in a series of 'Celebration of Guitar' concerts featuring US session legend Louie Shelton and Australian greats Peter Cupples, Kirk Lorange, Cameron Ford and Michael Fix.

Mary Lou Munroe Rey is back with Rated OZ Radio!  Today she's interviewing the legendary Craig Claxton! Craig Claxton is an Australian born Guitarist Singer Songwriter with a career spanning over 50 years. Since 1972 Craig has performed with many Australian bands including Karma, Spellbound, Speakeasy, The Pedestrians, No No No, The Last Shout, The Electric Blue Chameleons, The Atomic Boogie Band, & The Mercurys and his own band over the past several years ‘The Barbarians'. Find him on his website  Running guitar workshops, which have included many legendary guitarists including Robben Ford, Mike Stern, Bob Brozman, Louie Shelton, Phil Emmanuel, Eric Johnson, The Hellecasters, Billy Sheehan, Tony McManus, Kirk Lorange, Jim Kelly, Rex Goh, James Muller, Michael Fix, Flying Burrito Brother John Beland, Tim Gaze and many more. His lifelong love of guitar grew into him opening 'Guitar Brothers' Australia's premier guitar shop in 2006, now a destination for international and local guitarists alike, stocking some of the world's finest new and vintage guitar gear. Check out his shop here  He has played or recorded with artists as diverse as Robben Ford, Mick Hadley, Carol Lloyd, The Purple Hearts, Wendy Saddington, Chris Wilson, Tim Gaze, Barry Sullivan and Barry Harvey(Chain), Kim Durant and Caroline Hammond. Craig appeared in a series of 'Celebration of Guitar' concerts featuring US session legend Louie Shelton and Australian greats Peter Cupples, Kirk Lorange, Cameron Ford and Michael Fix.

Welcome back! More interviews, more tests, more old ads, more chat... from little Morris 1100s to huge Mercurys it's all here. Of course you have better things to do - but when did ever that stop you listening?

Show Topic : The Art & Style of Kustom Kar Culture    Stepping back in time during the 1950's & through the Southern California Hot Rod community of the 1960's ..many styles , designs and fashions developed through automotive artists like Von Dutch ( Kenny Howard ) , and custom car builder Ed "Big Daddy" Ed Roth ( behind the notorious Rat Fink culture  ) , along with names like lowrider custom builders Sam and George Barris .    Each of these distinct styles of customizing cars, like Barris Kustoms Little Deuce Coupe of which chopping down the roof line , shaved door handles or piecing together bits from a variety of different vehicle platforms gave it that new look of swagger and kustom kar  originality.   Kustom kar culture was born out of the shear necessity of unique expression and automotive design shaping the experiences of the day within the hot rod community that brought about a community vibe which included everything from wild pinstripe paint jobs, to chopped Mercurys to custom designed Harley Davidsons with deep black primer paint work , along with the music ,cartoons and movies that kept car culture a growing movement , including to this very day during the modern era of automotive design & technology. Special Guest Von Hot Rod https://bit.ly/3ri5VBS has a deep and respected legacy of motorsports & history, as well as the passion for kustom kar culture running through his veins from day one ! Whether operating a rock a billy nightclub, designing & building some phenomenal works of vehicular rolling art, or laying down some serious pin-striping artwork -Von continues to educate and share , while growing future generations to that kustom kar culture vibe of spirit and family .

In this week's episode, Sarah discusses Gemini energy and what to expect as the Sun spends time in Gemini over the next for weeks. This covers the New Moon, Full Moon, and Mercurys transit into Cancer and Retrograde! Background music provided by bensound  Link to participate in June Forecast Webinar via Zoom May 29th at 12pm EST. https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72044090412?pwd=blpIS0l6cmZRTXc4UHpxNnRUSTIxQT09 25$ Recorded Astrology or Tarot readings: Check them out here! Other Services: www.terriblebutgreatastrology.com   

Sam and Lou Intracast:  De Tomaso Pantera Today, it’s all about Italian styling and American power.     In this episode, Sam and Lou discuss the legendary De Tomaso Pantera.  Produced by Argentinian Alejandro de Tomaso, this Italian-styled body -- paired with an American muscle engine -- became one of the most unique vehicles of the 70s.  Cars of Carlisle covers the history of the American models of the Pantera that were sold right alongside Lincolns and Mercurys at the dealership lot.  

So beautiful souls coming near the end of the week we have a few shifts coming up, we are also in the shadow of Mercury retrograde. Mercurys shadow is just as powerful if not more than the retrograde. 19/20th we have the Equinox representing balance equal hours in day & night. It can also represent the light and dark, being the light and calmness in these times of turbulence. 20/21 Mars & Jupiter conjunction. Sun also moving into aries making the start of the astrological year. 21 Saturn moves into Aquarius ♒ More details in the introduction. All the inner work that we have done and are doing will help us work through the waves and get across the other side. This to shall pass. We are the lightbearers in these times of confusion, we are the way showers to help others find the light within them. We got this lightwarriors Love & Light Hazel Halite

Aaaah ha ha crab rave intensifies syche you thought Mercurys still not here Hornheads still in charge cmon floss lets get it I'm not seeing any movement also Gage is here

Book –em, Danno!  One of the Hawaii 5-0 Mercurys needs restoration!  This story and more!  [Ep37] The post Car Guys Report – It’s the Hawaii 5-0 Mercury! appeared first on Radio Misfits.

Ahhh ha ha insert crab rave Mercurys too busy being pregnant so Hornheads in charge whats up fuckers I will milk your cow

Show #445   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Tuesday 16th April 2019. It’s Martyn Lee here and I’ve been through every EV story I could find today, and picked out the best ones to save you time.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   ANDERS HOVE – PATREON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: “I was listening this morning to your guesses about the pronunciation of AI.ME. Since the concept was released at the Shanghai auto show, and could be intended for China, this is probably a play on words, since "ai" is the verb "to love." It'S pronounced the same as "aye" in "aye aye, captain." So "aye ... me.".   Reasons to have Sentry Mode: An email from Brian Thompson. “Willie Singletary, Council Candidate Hits Tesla Model 3 with Escalade and leaves scene.”   AUTO SHANGHAI 2019: THE ELECTRIC VEHICLES TO LOOK FORWARD TO "it's no surprise that the Auto Shanghai 2019, which begins on April 16, will have more EVs and EV concepts on display than you can point a finger at. Here's some of the ones that we think will stand out." says Overdrive.in. Their picks are: Possibly of most interest to us is the production version of the Renault K-ZE. As the looks suggest, this will be the electric version of the Renault Kwid. It will be based on a heavily modified version of the Kwid's CMF-A platform and will have a 250 km range. The Buick Velite 6 is a heavily revised version of the second generation Chevrolet Volt. The PHEV version debut first and be powered by the same 1.5 litre petrol motor and 18.4 kWh battery pack. The full EV version is expected to have a 85 kW motor with a claimed range of 291 km." They also rate the NIO EP7 performance sedan, the Audi Q2 etron which is like an electric A2 for China only, the Aston Martin Rapide E and the Geely GE 11 - "the first global model from Geely's newly-created EV brand "Geely New Energy". Internationally it will be available under the Geometry brand. "   http://overdrive.in/news-cars-auto/auto-shanghai-2019-the-electric-vehicles-to-look-forward-to/   RENAULT KWID EV (CITY K-ZE) REVEALED AT SHANGHAI MOTOR SHOW "Renault has showcased the production version of the Kwid EV at the 2019 Shanghai Motor Show. The EV is based on the same CMF-A platform as the Kwid, albeit with a few modifications to accommodate batteries and an electric motor. However the specifications of the same haven't been revealed yet." reports ZigWheels: "while it has not been officially revealed, the City K-ZE will have an approximate range close to 250Km. Inside, the cabin remains largely similar to the Kwid with a functional setup. Key highlights include an 8-inch touchscreen infotainment system which also gets online navigation, real time monitoring for EV features, 4G WiFi and voice recognition. the Renault City K-ZE packs PM2.5 sensors and an air quality control system, which evaluates cabin air quality and switches between interior and exterior air circulation automatically. It also gets features like a rear camera and a tyre pressure monitoring system."   https://www.zigwheels.com/news-features/news/renault-kwid-ev-city-kze-revealed-at-shanghai-motor-show/33576/   NEW NIO ET PREVIEW ELECTRIC CAR REVEALED IN SHANGHAI "At the Auto Shanghai 2019, Chinese EV startup NIO showed off its all new sedan product lineup with the ET Preview and exhibited its entire NIO Power service solution as well as some cutting-edge technologies such as the 220kW permanent magnet synchronous motor electric drivetrain." reports Gasgoo for InsideEVs.com "The EV maker also showcased such products as the high-performance electric flagship ES8 SUV; the high-performance long-range, intelligent electric ES6 SUV; the ultrafast electric car, the EP9; the NIO EVE Vision car and NIO Formula E Team car, the NIO 004."   https://insideevs.com/new-nio-et-preview-electric-car-revealed/   KARMA DEBUTS BEAUTIFUL PININFARINA DESIGNED ELECTRIC COUPE "Aside from the Karma Revero GT (yes, it’s an updated variant of the Fisker Karma from 2016) which is a production vehicle going on sale soon, Karma Automotive has an interesting two-door concept debuting at the 2019 Auto Shanghai. The so-called Pininfarina GT is based on the Revero GT and, as its name suggests, has been designed by Pininfarina." according to Anthony Karr from Motor1.com: "The official press release says this is the “first result of a partnership with Pininfarina, the iconic Italian design and engineering house,” which hints at potential future products developed in cooperation between the two companies. While the coupe has the exterior dimensions of the Revero GT, the overall appearance is sportier thanks to the shorter rear overhang and the long hood. We believe the two-door vehicle has the same powertrain as the Revero GT, which means there’s a BMW-sourced 1.5-liter three-cylinder turbo engine, an onboard electric generator, and two electric motors for a combined output of 535 horsepower (399 kilowatts) and 550 pound-feet (746 lb-ft) of torque."   https://insideevs.com/karma-debuts-pininfarina-electric-coupe/   ELECTRA MECCANICA SHIPS SOLO FROM CHINA TO NORTH AMERICA "Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker, Electra Meccanica Vehicle, has signed a contract with Crane Worldwide Logistics to move its single-passenger, three-wheel Solo model from its assembly plant in Chongqing to the ports of Los Angeles in the US and Vancouver, Canada." according to the website Automotive Logistics: "Electra Meccanica is currently ramping up mass production of its Solo electric vehicle at its Chongqing manufacturing facility in China for delivery to customers there and abroad in 2019. According to official figures from the EV maker it has 64,000 pre-orders on its books."   https://automotivelogistics.media/news/157291   HYUNDAI & H2E: 1,600 FUEL CELL TRUCKS FOR EUROPE "Hyundai and the Swiss company H2 Energy (H2E) have confirmed their commitment to establishing a joint venture called Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility. The JV’s first goal is to open up the European hydrogen mobility ecosystem with fuel cell trucks." writes Carrie Hamel for electrive.com: "Hyundai will supply a total of 1,600 fuel cell-powered heavy trucks to Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility from 2019 to 2025 – 600 more than originally announced in a memorandum of understanding signed in 2018 between H2E and Hyundai. The Swiss company H2E specialises in the production and supply of renewable hydrogen in Switzerland with subsidiaries in Germany, Norway and Austria and they will be responsible for marketing the fleet."   https://www.electrive.com/2019/04/15/hyundai-h2e-1600-fuel-cell-trucks-for-european-market/   MINI SURVEY CLAIMS CUSTOMERS ARE HAPPY WITH 75 MILES OF EV RANGE "In this survey from MINI USA, the brand asked 1,004 adults over the age of 18 (502 men and 502 women) a series of questions to determine what a necessary average range. While the questions asked were not disclosed to us, the brand claims that a resulting average range of 75 miles was deemed “sufficient”." says BMW blog: "MINI also learned from this survey that the majority of customers find EVs to be best used in city driving or for commuting. The latter of which is assuming it’s a relatively short commute. This information is likely to factor into the size of battery packs used in upcoming EV MINIs. The first one to come is the upcoming MINI E, which is said to use the same 42.2 kWh battery pack as the BMW i3 and get around 120 miles of range."   https://www.bmwblog.com/2019/04/15/mini-survey-claims-customers-are-happy-with-75-miles-of-ev-range/   TESLA'S CONSTANT PRICE CHANGES FRUSTRATE BUYERS "Last week, Tesla changed the prices on their cars again. In just the last few months there have been a huge number of price changes, particularly on the Model 3" says a Forbes article which goes on to track every price change since, a 12 point list which follows the changing face of Autopilot and the $35,000 Model 3 which came and (partially) went. It's a toughtful article by Brad Templeton and talks about buyers remorse, how cellphones have been commodotised. "Elon Musk has had a few things to say about this. First, he points out that prices on other maker's cars fluctuate all the time due to specials, dealer rebates, and plain old negotiation. He says Tesla is just doing it transparently and should not be blamed for doing the right thing. There is some merit to this, but the fact that somebody can get $3,000 off a car by negotiating at the dealer does not affect the price of existing cars nearly as much. He also points out that Teslas, unlike other cars before them, keep getting new features with software updates, which are given to all owners whose cars can handle them."   https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2019/04/15/teslas-constant-price-changes-frustrate-buyers-even-more-is-likely-as-cars-become-computers/#6bba873e5da9   TOYOTA SELLS ELECTRIC CAR TECHNOLOGY TO CHINESE STARTUP IN RETURN FOR GREEN CAR CREDITS "Toyota has agreed to sell its electric car technology to Chinese startup Singulato, in a move which will give it preferential rights to buy green credits under China’s new quota system for electric vehicles (EVs)." according to City AM newspaper: "The green car credit system, introduced in January, requires a significant portion of car makers’ production or imports in China must be electric or hybrid. Those that do not meet the quota themselves can purchase credits from rivals that exceed it, but if they do not have enough credits they face government fines for their operations in China. Singulato is developing a mini EV which it hopes to release later this year. This will generate credits for the startup, some of which Toyota will then purchase. Toyota has already said that initially it won’t be able to meet its quotas without buying credits from others."   http://www.cityam.com/276295/toyota-sells-electric-car-technology-chinese-startup-return   CHEVY BOLT EUV NAME TRADEMARKED, ELECTRIC CROSSOVER COMING? "An interesting patent filing by General Motors hints the upcoming second electric vehicle from the automaker could be a high-riding machine. First unearthed by GM Authority, the Bolt EUV moniker has been trademarked by GM earlier this month and will be used for “motor land vehicles, namely, automobiles.” says Motor1.com today: "As GM Authority reports, the name is probably going to be used for Chevrolet’s next Bolt-based EV. In March this year, the American manufacturer confirmed it will build the all-electric car at its Orion facility where the Bolt is currently produced. A new $300-million investment in the factory was also confirmed and a plan for approximately 400 new jobs at the site."   https://www.motor1.com/news/344658/chevrolet-bolt-euv-trademark-rumors/   WHY TESLA DEFINES AMERICAN LUXURY, NOT CADILLAC OR LINCOLN "Americans are at our best when we look forward instead of at what others are doing. Cadillac and Lincoln used to epitomize this idea." says MotorTrend: "While Cadillac has spent the past three decades copying BMW's homework, and Lincoln spent the same time building cost-cut, rebadged Fords and Mercurys, the soul of American luxury escaped Detroit. Today, it has settled in sunny California. Tesla's tech and engineering is class leading, and delivers benchmark EV performance and range. And the vehicles are (relatively) expensive, requiring early adopters to be of a certain socio-economic status. They have become part of the fabric of today's luxury consumer society, a car many buyers of mainstream automobiles now aspire to own because of what it would say about their own status. Tesla is therefore a genuine modern luxury brand."   https://www.motortrend.com/news/why-tesla-defines-american-luxury-not-cadillac-lincoln/   COMMUNITY And thanks to MYEV.com they’ve set us another Question Of The Week. 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